Across
- 6. Initiates blood clotting
- 9. Blood cells that perform the function of destroying disease-causing microorganisms
- 10. fluid that circulates within the lymphatic vessels
- 11. Human Immunodeficiency Virus, the virus that causes A.I.D.S.
- 12. A weakened or inactive version of a pathogen that stimulates the body's production of antibodies.
- 13. a substance produced by the body that destroys or inactivates an antigen that has entered the body
- 16. An individual does not produce his or her own antibodies, but rather receives them directly from another source
- 18. single-celled prokaryotic organism
- 20. A disease causing agent
Down
- 1. Cells that use phagocytosis to engulf foreign organisms
- 2. White blood cells
- 3. a form of acquired immunity in which the body produces its own antibodies against disease-causing antigens
- 4. Defenses against any pathogen
- 5. "Cell eating"
- 7. Bean-shaped filters that cluster along the lymphatic vessels of the body
- 8. White blood cells that are involved in the immune response
- 14. A non-cellular infectious agent
- 15. A system that protects the body from foreign substances and pathogenic organisms by producing the immune response
- 17. A protein that, when introduced in the blood, triggers the production of an antibody
- 19. Acute, contagious respiratory infection
