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Immune Attackers
Vocabulary directly tied to the Immune System
Question | Answer |
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Immune System | * Attacks organisms and substances that invade our bodies and cause disease * made up of white blood cells |
Blood Vessel | * Carries blood through the body * Are the vast circulatory system that delivers read and white blood cells throughout the body |
Blood Vessel Network | arteries veins capilaries |
Monocytes | * large white blood cells * migrate into connective tisse and become macrophages and move to kill invading enemies |
Macrophage | * type of white blood cell that eats bacteria as part of the immune response to infection |
Bacteria | major group of living organisms that lack nucleus and have a simple structure |
neutrophil | * type of white blood cell that destroys invading bacteria * attack quickly and in large numbers |
lymphocytes | * main type of immune cells * divided into T & B cells |