Immune System

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Across
  1. 2. a thick sticky designed to catch pathogens and prevent them from getting into the body
  2. 4. a type of immune cell, that gets directions from other cells & can become plasma or memory cell
  3. 6. response; nonspecific defense reaction to tissue damage caused by injury or infection
  4. 10. made by your body to label a dangerous pathogen
  5. 12. the body's specific recognition, response, and memory to a pathogen attack; third line defense
  6. 14. ability to resist or recover from a disease
  7. 16. an organ that is part of the lymphatic system
  8. 17. an internal immune defense, causes more blood to go to an infected or damaged area
  9. 18. when your body reacts with an immune response to a harmless thing
Down
  1. 1. the commander of the immune response
  2. 2. a white blood cell that engulfs and digests pathogens
  3. 3. that is part of a pathogen "tag"
  4. 5. a type of blood cell that ingests invading microbes
  5. 7. first line of defense
  6. 8. medicine to help kill bacteria
  7. 9. injection of a dead or weakened pathogen to build immunity
  8. 11. fine line of defense against pathogens
  9. 13. germs- these cause infectious diseases
  10. 15. bodily defenses that protect a person against all microorganisms