Immune System 1
Physical and chemical surface barriers
What is one of the three lines of defense of your body? (Or what is the first line of defense?)
Any substance recognized by the body as foreign ("foe") that can trigger an immune response.
What is an antigen?
A substance that can produce a hypersensitive reaction in the body but is generally harmless.
What is an allergen?
Commonly referred to as the voice box.
What is the larynx?
The part of the respiratory system that is connected to the nose and mouth and is shared with the digestive system.
What is the pharynx?
This is the pac man of the body. It is a type of white blood cell that engulfs pathogens.
What is a phagocyte?
This branch of the immune system has specific responses and memory.
What is the 3rd line of defense or the adaptive immune system?
This treatment blocks the effects of histamine.
What is antihistamine?
The exchange of gases oxygen and carbon dioxide.
What is respiration?
The sticky coating that is secreted by cells along your respiratory tract.
What is mucus?
This, while uncomfortable, is actually beneficial at destroying invaders and helping repair and restore damaged tissue. Generally you experience pain, heat, redness, swelling, and loss of function.
What is inflammation?
This pertains to the development of an immune response to one's own tissue.
What is autoimmune?
Commonly called the windpipe, this structure is strengthened by rings of cartilage.
What is the trachea?
The two hormones produced by the ovaries.
What are estrogen and progesterone?
The hormone that stimulates the production and secretion of testosterone.
What is LH (Luteinizing hormone)?
This is capable of resetting the thermostat of the body to cause a fever.
What is a pyrogen?
Antiodies form naturally after____.
Antibodies form artificially after____.
What is infection and vaccinations?
This is a flap that covers the windpipe and helps keep food and water from entering the lungs.
What is the epiglottis?
The process which leads to the formation of new haploid sperm.
What is spermatogenesis?
Where eggs are stored in the female reproductive system.
What are the ovaries?
This is responsible for slowing viral reproduction.
What are interferons?
An acute, extreme, and potentially fatal hypersensitivity (allergic) reaction to an allergen.
What is anaphylactic shock?
The tiny balloon-like sacs that look like bunches of grapes where carbon dioxide in the blood is exchanged for oxygen.
What are alveoli?
The scientific term for a woman's period. (Hint-starts with the letter M)
What is menstruation/menstrual cycle?
The sperm and egg join to create a ____ (future embryo).
What is a zygote?