Lymphatic and Immune System Crossword
Across
- 3. a bacterium, virus, or other microorganism that can cause disease.
- 5. Remember antigen and quickly stimulate immune response on reexposure
- 7. Organ located in the neck that produces T-cells
- 9. nonspecific defense against infection, characterized by redness, heat, swelling, and pain
- 11. Cells that develop from B cells and produce antibodies.
- 14. largest gland in the body
- 15. Cells created in the thymus that produce substances that attack infected cells in the body
Down
- 1. Amoeboid cells that roam connective tissue and engulf foreign particles and debris of dead cells.
- 2. small oval clumps of lymphatic tissue located at grouped intervals along lymphatic vessels
- 4. extension of the large intestine; contains a mass of white blood cells that contribute to immunity.
- 6. form a protective circle of lymphatic tissue around the entrance to the respiratory system
- 8. One type of T lymphocyte that activates B cells and other T lymphocytes
- 10. Abnormally high body temperature
- 12. it produces lymphocytes, filters the blood, stores blood cells, and destroys old blood cells.
- 13. A protein that acts against a specific antigen