Definitions
The vessels that carry watery fluid found in between your body's cells. This clear fluid is called?
What is the interstital fluid?
It contains many white blood cells. They grow and mature here and blood passes through it.
What is the spleen?
What is immunization?
What are the two types of vaccines?
What is weakend from the pathogen itself or a human made chemical that makes your body react the same as if a certain pathogen has entered it?
What system removes excess fluid from your body's tissues and returns it to the bloodstream.
What is the lymphatic system?
White blood cells in the lymp system.
What is lymphocytes?
The lymphocytes that attack organisms directly.
What are T Cells?
What disease was wiped out by a vaccine?
What is smallpox?
What system controls and regulates the balance of chemicals in your blood?
What is the urinary system?
What two things form a protective ring around the throat?
What are the tonsils and adenoids?
A weakened or inactive version of a pathogen that stimulates the body's production of antibodies that can destroy the pathogen.
What is a vaccine?
What disease known as infantile paralysis was elminiated. Jonas Salk and Albert Sabin were developers of it.
What is polio?
What system produces hormones that regulate several of the chemical processes occuring in your body?
What is the endocrine system?
The lymphocytes that produce antibodies that attack specific disease-causing microorganisms,
What are the B cells.
What are macrophages?
They attach to the lymph vessels and filter where the limph is cleaned before it is returned to the blood.
What are the lymph nodes?
A group of cells that prepare and release a chemical for use by the body.
What is a gland?
What is a pathogen?