Miscellaneous: Immune System

3. A type of white blood cell that surrounds and kills microorganisms, removes dead cells, and stimulates the action of other immune system cells.
6. type of white blood cell in the immune system of most vertebrates.
7. cells tailor-made to get rid of the specific microorganisms that have invaded your tissue.
8. A cell that is part of the immune system and helps the body fight infections and other diseases.
9. A type of white blood cell that makes antibodies.
12. A type of immune cell that can surround and kill microorganisms, ingest foreign material, and remove dead cells.
13. A complex network of cells, tissues, organs, and the substances they make that helps the body fight infections and other diseases.
14. a group of cells, tissues and organs that work together to protect the body.
15. happens when germs like bacteria and fungi develop the ability to defeat the drugs designed to kill them
17. acquired from exposure to the disease organism through infection with the actual disease.
18. a method by which a virus can replicate its DNA using a host cell
19. A drug used to treat infections caused by bacteria and other microorganisms.
20. a mean by which the body is given immunity to a disease by intentional exposure to small quantities of it

1. physical and chemical barriers that are always ready and prepared to defend the body from infection.
2. submicroscopic infectious agent that replicates only inside the living cells of an organism.
4. Any substance that causes the body to make an immune response against that substance.
5. The act of introducing a vaccine into the body to produce protection from a specific disease.
10. provided when a person is given antibodies to a disease rather than producing them through his or her own immune system.
11. results when exposure to a disease organism triggers the immune system to produce antibodies to that disease.
16. are part of the immune system and develop from stem cells in the bone marrow.