6.1 Misc.
This is the study of the immune system.
What is immunology?
The most important part of your immune system.
What are white blood cells or leukocytes.
This prefix means disease.
What is patho-?
This is the complex network of fluid-filled vessels and chambers that help transport the white blood cells throughout the body and aids them in cleansing the body of pathogens.
What is lymphatic system?
This is the body's largest lymph organ.
What is the spleen?
Organisms such as bacteria, fungi, protozoa and viruses that cause disease are called this.
What is pathogens?
What are phagocytes?
What is -gen?
All of the body's tissues contain this liquid.
What is tissue fluid?
Special accumulations of lymphatic tissue in the throat which help defend against infection are the tonsils and this.
What are the anenoids?
Y-Shaped protein molecules that fight pathogens.
What are antibodies?
This suffix is used to mean "cells"
What is -cytes?
This prefix means white.
What is leuk- or leuko-?
Once tissue fluid enters the lymph capillaries, the tissue fluid is now called this.
What is lymph?
What are the Peyer's patches?
The organ that serves as a shield to protect the body from invading pathogens.
What is the skin?
Leukocytes are referred to as this individual in the United States Army.
What is a soldier?
This suffix means cells.
What is -cytes.
This part of the lymphatic system returns lymph from its side of the boyd to the bloodstream.
What are the lymph ducts?
This organ serves as the "boot camp" where immature T cells are matured and "Trained" after being produced in the bone marrow.
What is the thymus?
Some leukocytes release this chemical "alarm signal" when it detects an invasion.
What is histamine?
This is caused by histamine and allows more blood to flow to the affected area of the body.
What is inflammation?
What is lymph- or lympho-.
Bean-shaped organs contain leukocytes, which cleanse the lymph of debris and monitor the lymph for signs of infection.
What are lymph nodes?
This lymph organ is located just behind the stomach on your left side.
What is the spleen?