Medical Terminology: week #11 terms

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