Across
- 2. part of digestive system, also filters blood of foreign compounds
- 4. antibiotics can treat them and they can cause sepsis.
- 6. lymph nodes in the throat that stop pathogens entering mouth, nose
- 8. filters blood of old red cells and foreign cells
- 12. a disorder or disease where your body attacks itself
- 13. any of various infectious proteins
- 15. when it comes to sepsis, it is all about this acronym
- 17. anything that stimulates an immune response
- 21. protective outermost barrier of our bodies
- 22. AKA white blood cell - nucleated, immune agent
- 23. clear extracellular fluid, has its own circulation
- 24. advanced form of sepsis, often deadly
Down
- 1. parasitic worm, such as a tapeworm
- 3. specific immunity that you develop - active and passive
- 5. T and B; these are an acquired type of leukocyte
- 7. a generalized reaction to infection involving redness, pain, swelling.
- 9. a secretion that captures pathogens
- 10. disease-causing organism.
- 11. A protein produced by B cells in the blood
- 14. defenses you are born with; like phagocytes, stomach acid
- 16. more active in youth, it makes T-cells (white)
- 18. we get vaccines to prevent illness caused by these
- 19. part of skeletal system, makes blood cells
- 20. look and filter like tiny kidneys in groin,throat,armpit