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| Immunology | Study of the immune system
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| Lymph | clear fluid that surrounds body cells. Lymph fluid contains salts, water, sugar, and wastes of metabolism.
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| Interstitial fluid | Surrounds body cells.
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| Immunity | Protection against infectious disease
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| Lymphocytes | A white blood cell formed in lymphatic tissue, making up approximately 22% to 28% of total number of leukocytes in the blood.
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| Immunoglobulins | Antibodies such as IgA, IgE, IgG, IgM, and IgD that are secreted by plasma cells in humoral immunity
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| Helper T cell (T4 cell) | Lymphocyte that aids B cells in recognizing antigens and stimulating antibody production.
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| Idiopathic | Diseases having no known cause; can only be treated symptomatically.
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| Iatrogenic | Disease caused by treatment and its effects on patients. Example would be chemotherapy causing severe anemia or hepatitis with blood transfusions
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| Pathogenic | Capable of causing disease.
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| Opportunistic infection | An organism (especially fungi and bacteria) causing disease in a host whose resistance is lowered by other disease or by drugs.
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| Communicable disease | An infectious disease easily transmitted directly or indirectly from one individual to another. Most effective prevention is cleanliness.
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| immuno/o | protection
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| lymph/o | lymph
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| lymphaden/o | lymph node
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| splen/o | spleen
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| thym/o | thymus gland
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| tox/o | poison
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| ana- | again, anew
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| inter- | between
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| axillary- lymph node site | underarms, upper chest, breasts, and upper abdomen
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| inguinal- lymph node site | legs, genitalia, and lower abdomen
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| pelvic- lymph node site | groin area
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| abdominal- lymph node site | along the main branches of the arteries of the intestine and the abdominal aorta
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| thoracic- lymph node site | Lungs, windpipe, and bronchi
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| cervical- lymph node site | anterior cervical, posterior cervical, tonsillar, submandibular, submental, and supraclavicular
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| Specific Immunity | The body's ability to recognize, respond to and remember harmful substances and bacteria.
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| Acquired Immunity | Acquired by infection or vaccination
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| Natural Immunity | Nondeliberate exposure to a causative agent.
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| Artificial Immunity | Deliberate exposure to the causative agent.
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| Vaccination | A modified pathogen or toxin to stimulate the production of antibodies
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| Aquired passive immunity | Given for immediate protection. An example would be antitoxins given in the case of poisonous snake bites
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| Inherited or inborn immunity | In the body at birth,sometimes referenced as innate immunity
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| Active- Natural immunity | An active disease produced by immunity
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| Passive- Natural immunity | Immunity passes from the mother to the fetus through the placenta or mother's milk.
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| Active- Artificial Immunity | Vaccination resulting in immunity to a certain disease or diseases
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| Passive- Artificial immunity | A nonimmune person is given protective material developed in antoher individual's immune system.
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| Antibodies | Protein compounds with specific combining sites.
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