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chapter 6 vocab
vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Pathogen | an organism that causes disease |
| Infectious Disease | a disease that can pass from one organism to another |
| Toxin | a poison that is prodused by bacterial pathogen and that damgages cells |
| Inflammatory Response | part of the body's defense against pathogens, in which flurid and white blood cells leak from blood vessels into tissues |
| Phagocyte | a white blood cell that destroy's pathogens by engulfing then and breaking them down |
| Immune Response | part of the body's defense against pathogens in which cells of the immune system |
| Lymphocyte | white blood cell that reacts to each kind of pathogen with a defense targeted specifically at that pathogen |
| T Cell | a lymphocyte that identifies pathogen and distinguisnes one pathogen from the other |
| Antigen | a molecule on a cell that the immune system can recognize either as part of the body or as coming from outside the body |
| B Cell | a lymphocyte that produce that help destroy a speafic kind of pathoge |
| Antibody | a chemical produced by a B cell of the immune system that destroy a speaific kind of pathogen |
| AIDS | a disase caused by a virus that attacks the immune system |
| Immunity | the ability of the immune system to destroy pathogens before they can cause disase |
| Active Immunity | immunity that occors when a person's own immunity system produce antibodies to resones |
| Vaccination | the process by which harmles antigen are deilberaty introduced into a person's body to produce active immunity |
| Vaccine | a substance use to kill virus's in the immune system |
| Antibiotic | a chemical that kills bacteria of slow them down |
| Norlinfectious disease | a disease that is not spread from person to person |
| Insulin | a chemical produced in the panceas that enables that body's cell to take in glucose from blood to use for energy |
| Allergy | a disorder in which the immune system is overly sensitive to a forerign substance |
| Diabetes | a condition in which either the pancreas fails to produce enough insulin or the bodys cell can't use it properly |
| Allergen | a subsance that causes an allergy |
| Histamine | a chemical that is responsible for the symptoms of an allergy |
| Asthma | a disorder in which the respiratory passages narrow significantly |
| Tumor | an abnormal tissue mass that results from the rapid division of cancerous cells |
| carcinogen | a substance or a factor in the environment that can cause cancer |
| passive immunity | immunity in which the antibodies that fight a pathogen come from another organism rather than from the person's own body |
Created by:
CJ WYATT
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