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