Across
- 1. swelling caused by excess fluid trapped in your body's tissues
- 7. function as immune sentinels
- 8. substance that plays a major role in many allergic reactions, dilating blood vessels and making the vessel walls abnormally permeable
- 9. greenish opaque liquid produced in infected tissue, consisting of dead white blood cells
- 10. blood protein produced in response to and counteracting a specific antigen
Down
- 2. damaging immune response by the body to a substance
- 3. a form of small leukocyte (white blood cell) with a single round nucleus, occurring especially in the lymphatic system
- 4. a substance used to stimulate the production of antibodies and provide immunity against one or several diseases
- 5. the immune system's way of protecting the body against an infectious disease
- 6. cell within the body capable of engulfing and absorbing bacteria and other small cells and particles