Immune System
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- 3. medicines that fight bacterial infections in people and animals
- 7. specific lymphocytes that produce antibodies as part of the adaptive immune response.
- 10. Any substance that causes the body to make an immune response against that substance.
- 13. mean by which the body is given immunity to a disease by intentional exposure to small quantities of it.
- 15. acquired from exposure to the disease organism through infection with the actual disease.
- 17. nonspecific resistance that destroys invaders in a generalized way without targeting specific individuals:
- 19. responds to antigens by producing cells that directly attack the pathogen, or by producing special proteins called antibodies
- 20. type of immune cell that can surround and kill microorganisms, ingest foreign material, and remove dead cells.
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- 1. results when exposure to a disease organism triggers the immune system to produce antibodies to that disease.
- 2. happens when germs like bacteria and fungi develop the ability to defeat the drugs designed to kill them.
- 4. provided when a person is given antibodies to a disease rather than producing them through his or her own immune system.
- 5. cell produced through hematopoiesis and found mainly in the blood
- 6. white blood cells that play a central role in the adaptive immune system, where the body adapts specificity to foreign antigen
- 8. act of introducing a vaccine into the body to produce protection from a specific disease.
- 9. protein made by plasma cells (a type of white blood cell) in response to an antigen
- 11. type of white blood cell that surrounds and kills microorganisms, removes dead cells, and stimulates the action of other immune system cells.
- 12. physical and chemical barriers that are always ready and prepared to defend the body from infection
- 14. lymphocytes known as B cells and T cells.
- 16. key player of the adaptive immune response that is responsible for humoral immunity in mammals.
- 18. type of immune cell that is made in the bone marrow and is found in the blood and in lymph tissue.