chapter 15 vocabulary
Across
- 3. Antigen that causes allergic reactions
- 4. chronic, inflammatory autoimmune disease
- 6. increasing individual resistance by artificial means (vaccines)
- 9. Immunity immunity developing over a lifetime as a result of exposure to invaders
- 10. fatal allergic reaction
- 13. the body's ability to resist invaders and diseases
- 14. masses of lymphatic tissue; palatine, adenoids, lingual
- 15. protein that functions specifically as an antibody
- 16. sac-like mass of lymphatic tissue located in abdominal cavity
- 18. enlargement of lymph nodes
- 19. the body's immune system fails to protect itself against foreign material
- 20. Gland part of both lymphatic and endocrine systems; produces T-lymphocytes
Down
- 1. straw colored fluid
- 2. inflammation or infection of the tonsils
- 3. Acquired Immunity immunity that results from immunization
- 5. Mononucleosis disease caused by Epstein-Barr virus
- 7. immunity you are born with; permanent and inherited
- 8. a person's own immune system targets normal cells, tissues and organs
- 9. acquired immunodeficiency syndrome
- 11. Nodes lymph nodes located under the arms
- 12. Disease form of cancer of the lymph nodes
- 17. System supplement to circulatory system
- 21. the virus that causes AIDS