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Adaptive immunity: another name for specific immunity
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Afferent lymph vessels: small lymphatic vessels that carry lymphatic fluid toward a lymp note
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Allergy: hypersensitivity of the immune system to relatively harmless invironment
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Antibodies: substance produced by the body that destroys or inactivates a specific substance that has entered the body
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Antibody mediated immunity: immunity that is produced when antibodes make antigens unable to harm the body
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Antigen: substance that, when introduced into the body causes formation of antibodies against it
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Bcells: a lymphocyte, activated they develop into plasma cells, which secrete antibodies into the blood - alsoy called blymphocyte
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Cell mediated immunity: resistance to disease organisms resulting from the actions of cells, chiefly sensitized t cells
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Cisterna Chyli: enlarged pouch on the thoracic duct that serves as a storage area for lymph moving toward its point of entry into the venous system
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Clone: any family of many identical cells descended from a single parent cell
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Combining sites: antigen binding sites, antigen receptor regions on antibody molecule, shape of each combining site is complementary to shape of a specific antigent
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Complement cascade: rapid fire series of chemical reactions involving proteins called complements (normal present in blood plasma) which are triggered by certain antibody antigen reactions (and other stimuli) and resulting in the formation of tiny protein rings that create holes in a foreign cell and thus cause its destruction
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Efferent lymph vessels: small lymphatic vessels that carry lymphatic fluid away from a lymph node
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Humoral immunity: also antibody mediated immunity
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Hybridomas: fused or hybrd cells that continue to produce the same antibody as the orginal lymphocyte
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Immune System: The body's defense system against disease
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Immunization: deli berate artifical exposre to disease to produce acquired immunity
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Inflammatory response: nonspecific immune process produced in response to injury and resulting in redness, pain, heat and swelling and promoting movement of white blood cells to the affected area
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Innate immunity: same as nonspecific immunity
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Interferon: small proteins produced by the immune system that inhibit virus multiplication
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Intterstitial Fluid: Fluid located in the microscopic spaces between the cells
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Kupffer's cells: macrophage found in the spaces between liver cells
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Lacteals: a lymphatic vessel located in each villus of the intesting, serves to absorb fat materials from the chyme passing through the small intestine
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Lingual tonsils: located near the base of the tongue
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Lymph: Specialized fluid formed in the tissue spaces that returns excess luid and protein molecules to the blood
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Lymph nodes: biological filtration of lymph on its way to the circulatory system
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Lymphatic capillaries: tiny blind ended tubes distributed in the tissue spaces
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Lymphatic vessels: Vessels that carry lymph to its eventual return to the circulatory system
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Macrophanges: phagocytic cells in the immune system
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Memory Cells: cell that remains in resrve in the lymph nodes until its ability to secrete antibodyes is needed
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Monoclonal Antibodies: specific antibody produced from a population of identical cells
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Nonspecific immunity: protective mechanisms that provide immediate, generic protection agains any bacteria, toxin or other injurious particle, also called innate immunity
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Palatine tonsils: located on each side of the throat
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pharyngeal tonsils: also known as adenoids, can become swollen, near the posterior opening of the nasal cavity
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Plasma cells: cells that secrete copious amounts of antibody into the blood
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Right Lymphatic duct: short vessel into which lymphatic vessels from the right upper quadrant of the body empty lymph, the duct then empties the lymph into the circulatroy system at the right subclavian vein
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Specific immunity: the protective mechanisms that provide specific protection against certain types of bacteria or toxins
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Spleen: largest lymphoid organ in the body
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Splenectomy: surgical removal of the damages spleen
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Tcells: another name for t lymphocyte- cells critical to the function of the immune system, produce cell mediated immunity
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Thoracic duct: largest lymph vessel in the body
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Thymus gland: endocrine gland located in the mediastinum, vital part of the bodys immune system
