Immune System Parts
Small, bean-shaped glands located throughout the body that play a crucial role in the immune system. During an infection, a person may notice they become swollen.
Lymph Nodes
White blood cells that are produced by bone marrow and help your body fight against germs.
Leukocytes
A blood test used to help diagnose autoimmune disorders.
Complete blood count
Who was elected as President of the United States in last night's election.
Donald Trump
Help fight infection by trapping and killing germs that enter the body through the mouth or nose
Tonsils
When a newborn baby acquires immunity from its mother through the placenta. What type of immunity is this called?
Passive Immunity
An inherited auto-immune disorder that causes a reaction in your body to gluten.
Celiac disease
A weakened virus is injected into the body to help prevent future viral infections.
Vaccine
The spongy tissue found inside your bones that produces erythrocytes, leukocytes and platelets.
Bone Marrow
Proteins produced by your immune system to attack and fight off antigens.
Antibodies
Specialists that specialize in diagnosing and treating autoimmune disorders.
Rheumatologists
What gets bigger when more is taken away?
a hole
Acts as a reservoir for healthy gut bacteria.
appendix
Generalized immunity that all humans are born with. Uses skin, fever and inflammation to help fight against infection.
Non-specific (innate) immunity
A chronic autoimmune disease that mostly affects one’s joints.
Rheumatoid arthritis
When experiencing an allergic reaction, the immune system releases a flood of chemicals that may cause the body to go into shock triggering a life-threatening response.
anaphylaxis
Cells that are released during the inflammatory response to engulf pathogens and digest them.
Phagocytes
T-cells and B-cells play a crucial role in the immune system. What type of cells are they?
lymphocytes
An autoimmune disease that occurs when the body's immune system destroys the pancreas' insulin-producing cells
Type 1 Diabetes
The more of this there is, the less you see. What is it?
darkness