Question | Answer |
a substance that kills or prevents the growth of bacteria | antibiotic |
a chemical made by the immune system that makes it easier for white blood cells to destroy pathogens | antibody |
microscopic, single-celled organisms | bacteria |
very easy to spread; used to describe a disease | contagious |
anything that causes your body to stop working properly | disease |
a chemical that is made by cells in response to injury | histamine |
able to make the antibodies to a pathogen before it can make you unwell; resistant to a disease | immune |
the system that fights infections | immune system |
a disease that can be spread ( adj + noun ) | infectious disease |
a white blood cell that makes antibodies | lymphocyte |
a white blood cell that consumes pathogens (m...) | macrophage |
a type of white blood cell that consumes pathogens (n...) | neutrophil |
an organism that causes disease | pathogen |
bacteria that cause disease (adj + noun) | pathogenic bacteria |
an early antibiotic | penicillin |
isolation to prevent spread of a disease | quarantine |
indicator of a particular disease | symptom |
a chemical that causes your body to react as if it encountered a pathogen; used to build immunity to a disease | vaccine |
a chemical that kills fungi | fungicide |
the organism a parasite lives in/on | host |
a cell invaded by viruses | host cell |
a single cell used by fungi to spread/reproduce | spore |
a pathogen about 100 times smaller than a bacterium | virus |