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- 3. The body’s most important non-specific defense.
- 7. Drug therapy.
- 8. Any change, other than an injury, that disrupts the normal functions of the body.
- 14. Poisons that produce illness by disrupting bodily functions.
- 15. The immunity produces by a vaccine.
- 16. The chemical released when allergy causing antigens attach themselves to mast cells.
- 18. Cancerous tumors.
- 20. compounds that kill bacteria without harming the cells of humans or animals.
- 22. Controlled amounts of ____________ can destroy fast growing cancer cells more quickly than normal cells.
- 24. You can get this pathogen from freshwater streams and rice paddies or contaminated meat.
- 25. _______ begins when something goes wrong with the controls that normally regulate cell growth and division.
- 27. Animals that carry disease causing organisms from person to person.
- 28. Example of this pathogen would be Tuberculosis, Meningitis, Cholera, and Tetanus.
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- 1. Response Series of specific defenses that attack the disease causing agent.
- 2. Mutations for cancer may occur in your _____.
- 3. Removes localized cancerous tumors.
- 4. Immunity Immunity against pathogens in the body fluids.
- 5. The release of chemicals that increase the core body temperature.
- 6. A disease causing agent.
- 7. Rapid loss of material that causes a cell the rupture and die.
- 9. Response Non-specific defense reaction to tissue damage caused by injury or infection.
- 10. Inhabits the synthesis of viral proteins in infected cells and help block viral replication.
- 11. The injection of a weakened or mild form of a pathogen to produce immunity.
- 12. The spread of cancerous tumors beyond their original site.
- 13. Example of this would be Athlete’s foot or Ringworm.
- 17. A protein that helps destroy pathogens.
- 19. Oil and sweat glands produce an _________ environment that kills many bacteria.
- 21. Non-cancerous tumors.
- 23. The most common over reaction of the immune system.
- 26. A substance that triggers an immune response.