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Immunity2
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Immunology | Study of the immune system |
| Lymph | clear fluid that surrounds body cells. Lymph fluid contains salts, water, sugar, and wastes of metabolism. |
| Interstitial fluid | Surrounds body cells. |
| Immunity | Protection against infectious disease |
| Lymphocytes | A white blood cell formed in lymphatic tissue, making up approximately 22% to 28% of total number of leukocytes in the blood. |
| Immunoglobulins | Antibodies such as IgA, IgE, IgG, IgM, and IgD that are secreted by plasma cells in humoral immunity |
| Helper T cell (T4 cell) | Lymphocyte that aids B cells in recognizing antigens and stimulating antibody production. |
| Idiopathic | Diseases having no known cause; can only be treated symptomatically. |
| Iatrogenic | Disease caused by treatment and its effects on patients. Example would be chemotherapy causing severe anemia or hepatitis with blood transfusions |
| Pathogenic | Capable of causing disease. |
| Opportunistic infection | An organism (especially fungi and bacteria) causing disease in a host whose resistance is lowered by other disease or by drugs. |
| Communicable disease | An infectious disease easily transmitted directly or indirectly from one individual to another. Most effective prevention is cleanliness. |
| immuno/o | protection |
| lymph/o | lymph |
| lymphaden/o | lymph node |
| splen/o | spleen |
| thym/o | thymus gland |
| tox/o | poison |
| ana- | again, anew |
| inter- | between |
| axillary- lymph node site | underarms, upper chest, breasts, and upper abdomen |
| inguinal- lymph node site | legs, genitalia, and lower abdomen |
| pelvic- lymph node site | groin area |
| abdominal- lymph node site | along the main branches of the arteries of the intestine and the abdominal aorta |
| thoracic- lymph node site | Lungs, windpipe, and bronchi |
| cervical- lymph node site | anterior cervical, posterior cervical, tonsillar, submandibular, submental, and supraclavicular |
| Specific Immunity | The body's ability to recognize, respond to and remember harmful substances and bacteria. |
| Acquired Immunity | Acquired by infection or vaccination |
| Natural Immunity | Nondeliberate exposure to a causative agent. |
| Artificial Immunity | Deliberate exposure to the causative agent. |
| Vaccination | A modified pathogen or toxin to stimulate the production of antibodies |
| Aquired passive immunity | Given for immediate protection. An example would be antitoxins given in the case of poisonous snake bites |
| Inherited or inborn immunity | In the body at birth,sometimes referenced as innate immunity |
| Active- Natural immunity | An active disease produced by immunity |
| Passive- Natural immunity | Immunity passes from the mother to the fetus through the placenta or mother's milk. |
| Active- Artificial Immunity | Vaccination resulting in immunity to a certain disease or diseases |
| Passive- Artificial immunity | A nonimmune person is given protective material developed in antoher individual's immune system. |
| Antibodies | Protein compounds with specific combining sites. |
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