Chapter 40: Immune System and Disease

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Across
  1. 2. Animals that carry disease-causing organisms from person to person.
  2. 5. Drug Therapy.
  3. 8. A nonliving pathogen that can use the materials of a host cell to make copies of it.
  4. 15. Any change, other than an injury, that disrupts the normal functions of the body.
  5. 16. Mass of growing tissue.
  6. 18. When the immune system makes a mistake and attacks the body's own cells
  7. 20. theory stating that infectious diseases were caused by microorganisms.
  8. 21. Can invade and destroy surrounding healthy tissue.
  9. 24. Common cancer causing virus.
  10. 28. The _____ is the body's most important nonspecific defense.
Down
  1. 1. The injection of a weakened or mild form of a pathogen to produce immunity.
  2. 3. After one is exposed to a disease they produce antibodies against it. This is called ______.
  3. 4. The immunity produced by a vaccine.
  4. 6. An important response for diseases caused by eukaryotic pathogens.
  5. 7. response A nonspecific defense reaction to tissue damage caused by injury or infection.
  6. 9. The spread of cancerous tumors beyond their original site.
  7. 10. Mast cells release chemicals known as _____.
  8. 11. A disease causing agent is a ______.
  9. 12. Proteins that interfere with a virus.
  10. 13. Maternal immunity is a type of ______.
  11. 14. Poisons that produce illness by disrupting bodily functions.
  12. 17. A _____ is an elevated body temperature.
  13. 19. A dangerous condition called ______ happens when smooth muscle contractions reduce the size of air passageways.
  14. 22. A series of guidelines used to identify the microorganism that causes a specific disease.
  15. 23. An immunity against pathogens in the body fluids is called _______.
  16. 25. Compounds that kill bacteria without harming the cells of humans or animals.
  17. 26. Most common overreactions of the immune system.
  18. 27. Protein that helps destroy pathogens.