| types of immunity | Definitions | cells involved in immune response | disorders | organs and glands |
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What is a Immunity that is naturally present and is not due to prior sensitization to an antigen?
innate immunity
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What is a colorless fluid containing white blood cells, which bathes the tissues and drains through the lymphatic system into the bloodstream?
Lymph
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What is a cell that helps protect the body from infection?
t cells
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What is build-up of fluid in soft body tissues when the lymph system is damaged or blocked?
lymphedema
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What is a gland that makes white blood cells?
thymus gland
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What is specialized immune cells and antibodies that attack and destroy foreign invaders and are able to prevent disease in the future by remembering what? those substances look like and mounting a new immune response
adaptive immunity
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What is a thin tube that carries lymph?
lymph vessel
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What is a cell that is responsible for the protective immune response against pathogenic infections?
b cells
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What is an autoimmune disease in which the immune system attacks its own tissues, causing widespread inflammation and tissue damage in the affected organs?
lupus erythemaatosus
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What is a small bean-shaped structure that filter substances that travel through the lymphatic fluid?
lymph nodes
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What is a Immunity produced by the transfer to one person of antibodies that were produced by another person?
passive immunity
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What is a small bean-shaped structure that filter substances that travel through the lymphatic fluid?
lymph nodes
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What is a cell that controls several types of tumors and microbial infections by limiting their spread and subsequent tissue damage?
natural killer cells
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What is inflammation of the tonsils?
tonsillitis
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What is a organ that filters out pathogens and maintain the population of mature lymphocytes?
bone marrow
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What is a usually long-lasting immunity that is acquired through production of antibodies within the organism in response to the presence of antigens?
active immunity
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What is an organ that is part of the lymphatic system that filters the blood, stores blood cells, and destroys old blood cells?
spleen
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What is a cell that constantly patrols the organism for signs of microbial infections, and when found, these cells quickly respond to trap and kill the invading pathogens?
neutrophils
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What is Cancer of the part of the immune system called the lymphatic system called?
hodgkins disease
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What is the gland that filters substances that travel through the lymphatic fluid?
lymph glands
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What is mean by which the body is given immunity to a disease by intentional exposure to small quantities of it?
artificial immunity
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What is a pair of soft tissue masses located at the rear of the throat?
tonsils
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What is a cell responsible for boosting immune responses?
monocytes
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What is disease interferes with the body's ability to fight infections
HIV
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What is an organ that is part of the lymphatic system that filters the blood, stores blood cells, and destroys old blood cells?
spleen
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