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What am I?
What do I do?
What is happening when...?
100
This word means "big eater".
What is "macrophage"?
100
This word means "web" and it sets up a "web" of responses if your body senses pathogens.
What is "histamine"?
100
I am produced (made) in bone marrow and mature(develop) there.
What is a "B cell"?
100
I am the body's first line of defense against pathogens.
What is the "skin"?
100
T-cells divide and attack and destroy any cells that have been infected by a pathogen.
What is "cell-mediated immune response"?
200
This word means "against birth or production". This starts an immune response.
What is "antigen"?
200
This means "disease producer or creator".
What is "pathogen"?
200
I am produced (made) in bone marrow but then travel to the THYMUS to mature (age).
What is a "T cell"?
200
I fight against my own body. I attack my own cells because I mistakenly believe they are pathogens.
What is an "autoimmune disease"?
200
B cells divide and create anitbodies which inactivate pathogens or mark pathogens for destruction by nonspecific defenses.
What is "humoral immune response"?
300
This "interferes" with a virus' ability to reproduce.
What is "interferon"?
300
This is your body's FIRST reaction to an antigen.
What is "primary immune response"?
300
I am an inappropriate reaction to a harmless substance.
What is an "allergy"?
300
I am a large white blood cell that kills pathogen infected CELLS.
What is a "natural killer cell"?
300
You cough, sneeze, or share bodily fluids with someone and give them pathogens?
What is "transmission"?
400
This means "against" the "body" and protects the body against outside disease.
What is "antibody"?
400
This is your body's SECOND response to a known pathogen.
What is "secondary immune response"?
400
I am resistant (can fight against) a specific pathogen.
What is "immunity"?
400
I FILTER blood to get rid of the pathogens.
What is a "spleen"?
400
Your body temperature rises above 98.6?
What is a fever?
500
This means "eat" "cells", this white blood cell "engulfs" or "surrounds" pathogens.
What is "phagocyte"?
500
This means "lymph cell". These are the body's specific defenses. They are found in the lymph and lymph nodes but also in the spleen and in blood.
What is "lymphocyte"?
500
I am dead or weakened pathogen that is injected (shot) into your body so your body can remember the pathogen and fight it off in the future.
What is a "vaccine"?
500
I remember "pathogens" that I have met before and attack them. I remember "pathogens" that I have been exposed to before.
What is a "memory cell"?
500
There is redness, swelling, warmth, pain, and immobility?
What is an "inflammatory response"?
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