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29 Cards in this Set
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What do you call diseases that are passed from person to personN?
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communicable
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What do we call any foreign chemical or protein that enters your body?
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Antigen
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A bacterium in dirt produces this toxin when you get dirt in a cut
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tetanus
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Dead or weakened antigens that are injected into your body to fight desease are called what?`
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Vaccine
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When you get a cut, what do you call the process to stop the bleeding?
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clotting
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What part of the blood carries the dissolved nutrients?
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Plasma
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This blood vessel allows movement of mutrients to the cells
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capillary
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This is immunity that will stay in your blood.
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Active immunity
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What is needed to clot blood?
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vitamin K
fibrin platelets |
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What part of the blood carries the oxygen from the lungs to the cells?
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Red blood cells
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When you get an infecton, your body rapidly increases the number of ___________ in your blood
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white blood cells
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This is immunity that will gradually disappear and has to be replaced.
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Passive immunity
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B-cells are a type of what kind of blood cell?
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white
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What do we call the protein molecule that attaches to oxygen in the red blood cells?
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Hemoglobin
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gonorrhea is_____
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a sexually transmitted disease that is hard to treat
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When antibodies are formed to fight specific antigens, it gives our body ______.
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Immunity
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Athlete's foot is what type of communicable disease?
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fungi
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What organ in the body recycles the used up red blood cells?
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Liver
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What blood cells does HIV attack?
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T-cells
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This part of the blood helps fight off germs.
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White blood cells
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The plasma in your blood is made mostly of _____
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water
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These are parts of the blood that help cause clotting. They are irregularly shaped.
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Platelets
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What is your body's first line of defense?
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skin
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These are made by the B-cells to destroy foreign chemicals/proteins.
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Antibodies
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Who made the first vaccine? It was used against smallpox.
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Jenner
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This is the element in human blood that makes it red
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Hemoglobin
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What do we use on our skin to kill microbes?
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antiseptic
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Where are red blood cells mainly formed?
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bone marrow
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About how many antibodies do you have in your body?
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2 trillion
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