Across
- 2. Process of engulfing and destroying microbes
- 4. Passage of white blood cells through vessel walls
- 8. Most abundant phagocytic white blood cell
- 9. Large phagocytic immune cell derived from monocytes
- 12. Cell capable of ingesting pathogens
- 13. Vesicle formed when lysosome fuses with phagosome
- 15. Elevated body temperature that slows microbial growth
- 19. Process enhancing pathogen recognition by phagocytes
- 20. Hairlike structures that sweep mucus and microbes out of airways
- 21. Circulating white blood cell that becomes a macrophage
- 22. Sticky secretion that traps microbes in respiratory and digestive tracts
- 23. Proteins that inhibit viral replication in host cells
Down
- 1. Immune cells that destroy virus-infected or cancer cells
- 3. Group of blood proteins that assist immune defenses
- 5. Protective linings of body tracts exposed to the environment
- 6. Localized response to infection or injury
- 7. Signaling proteins regulating immune responses
- 10. Resident microbes that compete with pathogens
- 11. Movement of immune cells toward infection signals
- 14. Oily secretion that inhibits bacterial growth on skin
- 16. Widening of blood vessels during inflammation
- 17. Enzyme that destroys bacterial cell walls
- 18. Proteins produced during inflammation to fight infection