Samantha V :Lymphatic System
Across
- 5. A disease where connective tissue throughout the body is attacked by the immune system.
- 6. Borrowed immunity (antibodies from someone else) 3-5 weeks and then body is making its own. Ex: MotherÅ› milk
- 7. destroys red blood cells and contains lymphocytes that help clean the blood of foreign pathogens
- 9. The lymphatic duct that receives lymph from the right side of the body
- 12. Inflammation of the tonsils
- 17. The immunity with which we are born. It is inherited and is permanent. Ex: skin, tears
- 18. A specific example of cancer where there is excess production of white blood cells
- 21. Lymphatic duct that receives lymph from left side of the body.
- 22. The body's ability to resist those invaders and diseases they cause.
- 23. Structures that transport excess tissue fluid back into circulatory system.
- 25. It's the result of having recovered from a disease. A series of unnoted or mild infections. You body continues to fight it off and builds antibodies.
- 26. collect and destroy pathogens; located at the rear of the throat (pharynx)
- 27. Damaging immune response of the body to a certain subject.
Down
- 1. Its preferable to passive acquired because your body builds its own antibodies after you have been sick.
- 2. form of Artificial Acquired Immunity; produce immunity against a disease
- 3. The fluid that flows through the lymphatic system
- 4. Another name for lymph fluid.
- 8. A type of white blood cell
- 10. The virus that causes AIDS
- 11. A severe allergic reaction
- 12. T cells mature here
- 13. Process of increasing resistance to disease.
- 14. Substance produced by the body that inactivates a specific foreign substance that has entered the body.
- 15. substance that causes an allergic reaction.
- 16. The reaction that occurs as result of exposure to these invaders.
- 19. A disease characterized by uncontrolled making of lymphocytes that are immature.
- 20. disease in which antibodies can't tell the difference between healthy cells or bad.
- 23. Structures that produce lymphocytes filter out harmful bacteria.
- 24. Severely decreased immune function caused by infection with the HIV virus.