diseases vocab
Across
- 1. removal of tissue sample from a person for examination
- 5. mass of abnormal cells
- 7. diseases disease that causes further breakdown in body cells, tissues and organs as they progress
- 9. disease that prevents the body from converting food into energy
- 12. substances released by invading pathogens
Down
- 2. Body's response to injury or disease
- 3. viral disease characterized by a severe sore throat and swelling of the lymph glands in the neck
- 4. proteins that attach to antigens, keeping them from harming the body
- 6. disease characterized by the rapid and uncontrolled growth of abnormal cells
- 8. condition in which a blood vessel bringing oxygen to the brain bursts or is blocked
- 10. extreme sensitivity to a substance
- 11. organism such as an insect that transmits a pathogen