Across
- 1. Immunity that is present only after exposure and is highly specific.
- 5. a disease that lasts a long time & tends to recur
- 7. symptoms develop rapidly but the disease lasts only a short time
- 8. disease
- 10. A disease that can be spread from one person to another.
- 13. soldiers of your immune system, white blood cells
- 14. A type of white blood cell that make antibodies to fight off infections
- 15. occurs because many pathogens infect only a certain type of organism
- 17. the body's largest lymph organ
- 18. diseases that are caused by aging, malnutrition, or hormonal imbalances
Down
- 2. Immunity that is temporary after birth
- 3. a type of cell within the body capable of engulfing and absorbing bacteria and other small cells and particles.
- 4. disease causing agents
- 6. tumor shows no tendency to spread through the body
- 8. eat or eater
- 9. white
- 11. nodes Bean-shaped filters that cluster along the lymphatic vessels of the body
- 12. diseases that are transmitted by invading pathogens such as bacteria, viruses, & fungi
- 16. the study of the immune system - its structure, functions, disorders and diseases