Medical Terminology: week #11 terms
Across
- 4. self
- 5. the body's ability to resist disease
- 9. tissue fluid; found in the spaces between cells
- 13. infections by pathogens in people with weakened immune systems
- 15. severe, sometimes fatal, allergic reaction
- 18. tissue
- 19. false; fake
- 22. inflammation
- 24. against
- 26. the ability to not be affected by something
- 28. when the body's immune system mistakenly attacks normal tissue
- 29. structures that transport excess fluid back into the circulatory system
- 33. cancer
Down
- 1. an antigen injected into a person in order to stimulate the production of antibodies
- 2. sac-like mass of lymphatic tissue located in the left abdominal cavity, just below the diaphragm
- 3. lymphatic and endocrine gland that produces lymphocytes; most active during the neonatal and pre-adolescent periods
- 4. a substance that induces an immune response in the body
- 6. between
- 7. lymph
- 8. a substance that causes an allergic reaction
- 10. poisonous
- 11. breakdown; dissolve
- 12. small
- 14. disease
- 16. gland
- 17. straw-colored fluid that goes between capillary blood and tissues
- 18. above normal; excessive; high
- 20. deficiency
- 21. producing/causing
- 23. thymus
- 25. white
- 27. within
- 30. masses of lymphatic tissue that produce lymphocytes
- 31. spleen
- 32. swelling
- 33. chemical
- 34. protection