Across
- 5. goal of treatment for autoimmune disorders
- 7. in addition to avoiding purine containing foods, a person with gout should also avoid
- 9. Small antigens bond with healthy tissue, body responds by creating antibodies that attack the healthy tissue.
- 10. a sign of inflammation
- 11. chronic pain syndrome due to brain and spinal cord perceiving pain signals
Down
- 1. chronic, systemic, autoimmune inflammatory disease characterized by an inflammatory process that affects diarthrodial, or freely moving, joints, causing pain and swelling
- 2. Most clinical manifestations of SLE are attributed to antibodies and the creation of immune complexes that are deposited into tissues.
- 3. a breakdown product of purines that are part of many foods we eat
- 4. Herberden’s nodes is an assessment finding
- 6. a protective response that aims to eliminate the initial cause of cell injury, remove the damaged tissue, and generate new tissue
- 8. caused by a build-up or uric acid crystals in the joints