Vocabulary
This is known as the basic structure of all living things
What is a cell?
This type of tissue contracts which allows for movement
What is muscle tissue?
Anything that causes illness
What are pathogens?
a collection of specialized tissues that form a unit to perform a specific function
What are organs?
A group of organs that work together to perform one or more functions
What are organ systems?
A group of cells that have a similar structure and function
What are tissues?
This type of tissue doesn't regenerate easily ( if at all) & is important for the control of all body functions
What is nervous tissue?
Colorless blood cells that work to attack & kill any foreign substance in the body
What are white blood cells?
A liquid tissue whose functions depend on cells
what is blood?
A protein produced by the immune system in response to an antigen
What are antibodies?
what is an inflammatory response?
This type of tissue covers the outside of the body & lines the inside of the body
What is epithelial tissue?
The ability to resist disease & infections
What is immunity?
Special WBC that can engulf bacteria
what are phagocytes or macrophages ( neutrophils & monocytes)
A fibrous tissue that connects bones to muscle
What are tendons?
Any normally harmless substance that can cause an allergic reaction
What is an allergen?
This type of tissue is the most abundant & regenerates easily
What is connective tissue?
Foreign substances in the body that trigger an immune response
what is an antigen?
Special WBC that make antibodies & memory cells
What are B cells?
When immunity is passed from one individual to another by blood transfusion
What is passive immunity?
This system's job is to keep the body in a state of homeostasis by fighting off disease & infection
what is the immune system?
This tissue helps to make blood cells & immune cells
What is hemopoietic ?
any change in the body that disrupts homeostasis
what is disease
Deliberate exposure to a disease causing agent through immunizations
What is active or adaptive immunity?
cells-> tissues-> organs-> organs systems
When the body's immune system can't tell the difference between its own cells & foreign cells
-lupus is can example of this
What are autoimmune diseases?
A type of tissue where wbc/ lymphocytes go to mature
what is bone/ bone marrow?
A special protein that destroys a viruses' ability to reproduce
What are interferons?
What are three reactions of the body during the inflammatory response
What is redness/swelling, increased blood flow & the release of wbc to the affected area
The first line of defense against disease & infection
What is skin, tears, mucous, or sweat