Across
- 3. This type of immunity is acquired only by previously being infected by the disease.
- 4. Elevated body temperature.
- 5. Secreations in the nose and throat that trap bacteria.
- 6. Type of pathogen that causes malaria.
- 9. Pathogen that causes athlete's foot.
- 10. Injection of weakened or mild form of pathogen to produce immunity.
- 13. Drugs that are used to counteract the effects of histamines.
- 14. Animals that carry disease-causing organisms.
- 16. Disease causing agent.
- 18. Chemicals that increase blood flow to surrounding area.
- 20. Poisons that produce illness.
- 21. The body's most important nonspecific defense.
- 22. Any change that disrupts normal body function.
- 24. A substance that triggers an immune response.
- 25. This type of immunity lasts only a short time.
- 27. Most common over-reaction of the immune system.
- 28. Caused by the HIV-virus.
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- 1. Type of pathogen that causes tetanus.
- 2. Disease that begins when something goes wrong with regulating cell growth and division.
- 3. Cells that engulf pathogens.
- 5. Tumor that can invade and destroy surrounding tissue.
- 7. Mass of rapidly growing tissue.
- 8. Proteins that interfere with a virus.
- 11. Compounds that kill bacteria.
- 12. A combination of chemicals that destroy cancer cells.
- 15. This persons postulate is used to identify the microorganism that causes a specific disease.
- 17. Protein that helps destroy pathogens.
- 19. The spread of cancerous tumors beyond their original site.
- 23. Disease spread by sexual contact.
- 26. A pathogen that can replicate only by infecting living cells.