Across
- 2. a thick sticky designed to catch pathogens and prevent them from getting into the body
- 4. a type of immune cell, that gets directions from other cells & can become plasma or memory cell
- 6. response; nonspecific defense reaction to tissue damage caused by injury or infection
- 10. made by your body to label a dangerous pathogen
- 12. the body's specific recognition, response, and memory to a pathogen attack; third line defense
- 14. ability to resist or recover from a disease
- 16. an organ that is part of the lymphatic system
- 17. an internal immune defense, causes more blood to go to an infected or damaged area
- 18. when your body reacts with an immune response to a harmless thing
Down
- 1. the commander of the immune response
- 2. a white blood cell that engulfs and digests pathogens
- 3. that is part of a pathogen "tag"
- 5. a type of blood cell that ingests invading microbes
- 7. first line of defense
- 8. medicine to help kill bacteria
- 9. injection of a dead or weakened pathogen to build immunity
- 11. fine line of defense against pathogens
- 13. germs- these cause infectious diseases
- 15. bodily defenses that protect a person against all microorganisms