Across
- 3. A common acute disease that causes the inflammation of the appendix.
- 5. This changes some white blood cells into different types of white blood cells.
- 7. This is caused by infections. When it occurs, the body heats up as it trys to defend itself.
- 12. This is an example of a genetic disorder where a person has an extra copy of a certain chromosome.
- 14. A watery fluid that contains dissovlced materials and special white blood cells.
- 17. Exasmples of this type of noninfectious disease are strokes and appendicitis.
- 19. Jonas Salk is responsible for developing this.
- 21. These trap pathogens and fight infection.
- 25. This is important when discussing genetic disorders beuase several common diseases tend to be passed down in families.
- 26. Genetic disorders may be caused by this in the DNA of genes.
- 28. An abnormal condition that is usually inherited through genes.
- 29. The first type of white blood cells _____ invaders.
- 30. A substance that provokes allergies.
- 31. The body's ability to protect itself from pathogens before they cause disease.
- 32. When a person acquires immunity from a source other than the person's body such as antibodies a mother passes to her child.
Down
- 1. Where white blood cells are produced.
- 2. Examples of this type of noninfectious disease are cancer, diabetes, heart disease, stroke, asthma, and arthritis.
- 4. Surgical procedures that doctors perform to remove tonsils.
- 6. A type of immunity in which the immune system produces antibodies in response to the presence of a pathogen.
- 8. Lymph nodes often become _____ because the white blood cells are multiplying in order to fight the infection.
- 9. This condition causes the inflammation adn swelling of joints.
- 10. These white blood cells are programmed to remember both the invader and how to make the antibody.
- 11. A major component of the immune system that protexts teh body from pathogens.
- 13. This filteres the blood.
- 15. This is a type of virus that attacks the immune system, in particular T-cells which are white blood cells that recognize pathogens.
- 16. A type of white blood cell that engulfs pathogens and other cells.
- 18. These are not caused by pathogens and are not contagious.
- 20. The series of reactions that take place when white blood cells fight against infection.
- 22. Proteins that mark pathogens for destruction.
- 23. When you receive one of these, a dead or weakened pathogen is introduced to your body which triggers the immune system to develop antibodies against it.
- 24. A rounded mass of tissue that filters fluids from other body tissues and traps pathogens.
- 27. This is noninfectious disease produced by the immune system's irregular reaction to a substance in the environment.