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32 Cards in this Set
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Infectious disease |
Mainly caused either by a microorganism or by an equivalent entity capable of both transmission between host and replication |
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Pathogen |
Disease - causing microorganisms, and particularly a disease - causing bacteria or virus |
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Inflammation |
Localized response within bodies to damage as well as to the presence of foreign materials within normally sterile tissues |
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Innate immunity |
Mechanisms that protect an organism from pathogens and parasites and that do not change in their specificity over the course of the organisms life span |
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Adaptive immunity |
Production of antibodies along with T cell-mediated cellular cytotoxicity both as means of protecting organisms from pathogens and parasites |
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Antigen |
Relatively complex molecules, mostly proteins but also some carbohydrates, that can be recognized by adaptive immune responses |
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Antibody |
Proteins produced by vertebrate animals that function by binding to other molecules, there by either in activating those other molecules or tagging them is foreign to the body |
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Antigen antibody complex |
The product of binding and an immunoglobulin to a protein or molecule that has been targeted by an immune response |
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Gamma globulin |
Most common product employed for artificially acquired passive immunization |
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Leukocyte |
White blood cell |
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Phagocyte |
Leukocyte capable of removing particles, microorganisms, and debris from extracellular environment within animal bodies |
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Spleen |
Lymphoid organ found in the ventral cavity of vertebrates that functions to regulate various aspects of blood |
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Macrophage |
Long - lived phagocytic leukocytes that also serve as antigen - presenting cells |
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Neutrophil |
Relatively short - lived phagocytic leukocytes |
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Histamine |
Molecule playing a variety of roles in physiology, especially contribution to inflammatory responses but also playing roles in the regulation of the gastrointestinal tract as well as serving as a neurotransmitter |
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Lymphocyte |
Collective name for B cells, T cells and other natural killer cells |
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Thymus |
Gland in which cells responsible for cell - mediated immunity mature |
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Natural killer cell |
Cytotoxic lymphocyte that is associated particularly with innate rather than immunity |
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B cell |
Lymphocytes that are responsible for producing antibodies |
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Plasma cell |
B cells that are actively producing antibodies |
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Memory cell |
Expanded colonial lineage of B cells that can be stimulated to produce plasma cells |
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Antibody mediated immunity |
Adaptive immune responses that are dependent on B cells proliferation and associated biosynthesis |
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Vaccine |
Agent employed to artificially induced (or "prime") adaptive immune responses |
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Cell mediated immunity |
Means by which infected or otherwise abnormal body cells may be eliminated especially through the destruction of the infected cell |
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T cell |
Lymphocytes that mediate cellular immunity (both helper and cytotoxic) |
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Interferon |
Molecules produced by virus infected and other ailing cells that are used as a means of communicating situation to other cells so that the latter can take protective actions |
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Tonsils |
Lymphoid tissue exposed to the back of the mouth or pharynx |
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Lymph node |
Key site of development of adaptive immune responses, found in numerous, discrete locations throughout the body in the filter the drainage from the body interstitium. |
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Mucociliary escalator |
Means by which smaller foreign objects are slowly moved out of the respiratory system |
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AIDS |
Virus - induced decline in T helper cells characterized by severe immunodeficiency |
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Autoimmune disease |
Lack of immune system tolerance for certain aspects of the body's own tissue, resulting in tissue destruction and or chronic inflammation |
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Allergy |
Immune system hypersensitivity to a normally the benign environmental component |
