3.1.1-3.1.3 Vocab Review

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  1. 1. A substance used to stimulate an immune response with the goal of creating antibodies and providing immunity to specific infections.
  2. 3. Living, multicellular, eukaryotic organisms. Include yeasts, mildews, molds, and mushrooms
  3. 6. previous residence of a pathogen
  4. 8. Anything that stimulates an immune response
  5. 11. acquired following infection and recovery, or from a vaccine. Your body makes its own antibodies.
  6. 13. occurs infrequently and irregularly
  7. 15. deals with the incidence, distribution, causes, and control of health problems in a population.
  8. 17. Living, multicellular, eukaryotic worms. Both microscopic and macroscopic varieties exist.
  9. 18. An infection acquired in a hospital; also known as a hospital-acquired infection
  10. 20. Non-living microscopic agents made up of an outer protein shell, called a capsid, and either DNA or RNA
  11. 21. Disease transmission occurs when a susceptible host touches an infected individual or is exposed to their body fluids.
  12. 23. A disease-causing organism.
  13. 24. Living, microscopic, single-celled, eukaryotic, animal-like organisms.
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  1. 2. Non-specific immune defense mechanisms that we are born with. These mechanisms work to keep anything outside of us from coming in.
  2. 4. An epidemic that has spread across several countries or continents and affects a large number of people
  3. 5. A protein produced by B cells in the blood; works to impair pathogens. Also called an immunoglobulin
  4. 7. acquired from the mother. Antibodies are given to a child through the placenta or through breast feeding.
  5. 9. A type of lymphocyte (white blood cell) that matures in bone marrow and produces antibodies
  6. 10. A sudden increase in the occurrence of a disease in a localized area.
  7. 12. A disease perpetually present in a community or population within a specific geographic area
  8. 14. Non-living, submicroscopic, proteins
  9. 16. Disease transmission that occurs when a susceptible host inhales infected particles, touches an infected object, or is bitten by an infected insect.
  10. 19. Specific immune defense mechanisms. This form of immunity is acquired over a lifetime and uses antibodies to respond to specific antigens.
  11. 22. Living, microscopic, unicellular, prokaryotic organisms that are treated with antibiotics
  12. 25. A type of white blood cell (lymphocyte) produced by the thymus and involved in the immune response.