Immunity

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Across
  1. 2. blood cells, the most important components of your immune system
  2. 3. aids the immune system by adjusting hormone levels, raising the body’s temperature to help fight certain kinds of pathogens
  3. 5. kill pathogens by engulfing and disposing of them
  4. 10. contains harmless bacteria which prevent harmful bacteria, yeasts, and other pathogens from taking up residence
  5. 11. the study of the immune system
  6. 13. marrow, produces white blood cells
  7. 14. white blood cells are also called
  8. 16. serves as a shield that protects the body from invading pathogens
  9. 19. secrete germ killing antibiotics into into the alveoli
  10. 20. the body’s largest lymph organ
Down
  1. 1. causes inflammation of nearby tissues
  2. 4. do not float passively through the body; they are able to travel from place to place at will
  3. 6. organisms such as bacteria, fungi, Protozoa, and viruses that cause disease
  4. 7. large
  5. 8. some of the most important weapons that your immune system uses to fight pathogens
  6. 9. tissue fluid
  7. 12. suffix that means cells
  8. 15. prefix that means white
  9. 17. means inflammation
  10. 18. filters toxins from the blood and breaks them down for elimination