Immune System Crossword Puzzle

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Across
  1. 3. This type of immunity is acquired only by previously being infected by the disease.
  2. 4. Elevated body temperature.
  3. 5. Secreations in the nose and throat that trap bacteria.
  4. 6. Type of pathogen that causes malaria.
  5. 9. Pathogen that causes athlete's foot.
  6. 10. Injection of weakened or mild form of pathogen to produce immunity.
  7. 13. Drugs that are used to counteract the effects of histamines.
  8. 14. Animals that carry disease-causing organisms.
  9. 16. Disease causing agent.
  10. 18. Chemicals that increase blood flow to surrounding area.
  11. 20. Poisons that produce illness.
  12. 21. The body's most important nonspecific defense.
  13. 22. Any change that disrupts normal body function.
  14. 24. A substance that triggers an immune response.
  15. 25. This type of immunity lasts only a short time.
  16. 27. Most common over-reaction of the immune system.
  17. 28. Caused by the HIV-virus.
Down
  1. 1. Type of pathogen that causes tetanus.
  2. 2. Disease that begins when something goes wrong with regulating cell growth and division.
  3. 3. Cells that engulf pathogens.
  4. 5. Tumor that can invade and destroy surrounding tissue.
  5. 7. Mass of rapidly growing tissue.
  6. 8. Proteins that interfere with a virus.
  7. 11. Compounds that kill bacteria.
  8. 12. A combination of chemicals that destroy cancer cells.
  9. 15. This persons postulate is used to identify the microorganism that causes a specific disease.
  10. 17. Protein that helps destroy pathogens.
  11. 19. The spread of cancerous tumors beyond their original site.
  12. 23. Disease spread by sexual contact.
  13. 26. A pathogen that can replicate only by infecting living cells.