 | Term | Definition |
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Immune System |
Disease causing organisms inside body |
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1st line of defense |
Skin, cilia and mucus |
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2nd line of defense |
White blood cells |
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Inflammatory Response |
When blood cells go to infected area |
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Interferon |
Substance produced by body cells |
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Third line of defense |
produced substances in blood that weakens or destroys germs |
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Antibodies |
produce by immune system responsible for destroying harmful invadors |
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Antigen |
Substance that triggers action of antibodies. |
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Antigen shape |
T |
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Immunity |
Resistance to a disease causing organisms |
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Active Immunity |
As a result of having the disease or bein vaccinated |
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Vaccination |
Process by which antigens are deliberatly introduced into the system |
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Passive immunity |
Another organism is produced antibodies |
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Allergies |
immune system is overly sensitive to retain substances such as dust and feathers |
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AIDS |
Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome |
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Infectionous disease |
Disease that are transmitted among people |
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Virus |
Disease causing agent depends on cells fro it's growth |
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Noninfectionous disease |
can't infect others |
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Cancer |
Cells that ggrow in a abnormal and unncontrolled way. |
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Cancer cells |
Form tumors, crown out normal cells, break off and travel to other parts of the body |
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Treatments |
Chemo, radiation and surgery |
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Type one diabetes |
pancreas does not produce insulin |
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Type two diabetes |
caused by inablity to use insulin |
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