Organ-ized
This organ pumps blood through your body and has four chambers.
Heart
A neutrophil is eating a small foreign cell. What kind of infection is this?
Bacterial
The most common white blood cell — the "First Responder" that rushes to infections and eats bacteria.
Neutrophil
The four signs of inflammation are redness, heat, swelling, and this.
Pain
Before touching a patient, you must clean your hands AND do this.
Ask permission
One of the four main tissue types — this one lines the inside and outside surfaces of organs and body cavities
Epithelial tissue
The smear shows a cell with bright red and pink granules — an eosinophil. What's going on?
Allergic reaction
The "Big Eater" that eats germs, dead cells, and debris.
Macrophage
The "cell eating" process where neutrophils and macrophages gobble up invaders.
Phagocytosis
A ranked list of 3 or 4 conditions a patient might have, most-likely first.
Differential diagnosis
This organ makes bile, which helps your body absorb fats.
Liver
The smear shows large, oddly-shaped lymphocytes (called "atypical"). What kind of infection?
Viral infection
When a B-cell learns to fight a germ, it turns into one of these "antibody factories"
Plasma Cell
The flexible, self-repairing "wall" of the body — and the largest organ
Skin
$300 — A child has a high fever, sore throat, and thick yellow mucus that's lasted over two weeks. What's the diagnosis?
Bacterial infection
This one organ is part of BOTH the digestive system AND the endocrine system.
Pancreas
The smear is full of large, immature white blood cells called "blasts."
Leukemia
The "Smart Soldiers" — this group includes T-cells and B-cells.
Lymphocytes
In the castle metaphor, this organ is "the school" — it sits over the heart and trains T-cells
Thymus
A child has pale skin, easy bruising, and infections that won't go away. Bone marrow is making bad WBCs. Diagnosis?
Leukemia
Heart, lungs, arteries, and veins all belong to this body system.
Cardiopulmonary system
Yeast cells or thread-like hyphae appear on the smear, often surrounded by immune cells
Fungal infection
An innate cell that hunts down infected and cancerous cells. Its name says it all.
Natural Killer Cell
Often Y-shaped "smart missiles" made by plasma cells that stick to specific germs
Antibodies
A teenager has a low-grade fever, extreme fatigue, and swollen lymph nodes in the neck for five days. Diagnosis?
Viral infection