| A | B |
|---|
| disease | any change that interferes with normal functioning of the body |
| infection | body successfully invaded with a pathogen |
| pathogen | disease causing agent |
| germ theory | diseases are caused by microorganisms |
| robert koch | creator of the germ thoery |
| agents of disease | pathogen causing disease |
| mode of transmission | inhalation, ingestion, carried by blood flow |
| immune system | non and specific defenses against infections |
| nonspecific defenses | body's first line of defense against diease |
| specific defenses | works if pathogen gets passed nonspecific |
| lysozyme | enzyme that breaks down the cell walls of many bacteria |
| inflammatory response | body's 2nd line of defense |
| macrophage | engulfs and destroys aggulated mass |
| phagocyte | white blood cells that destroy pathogens |
| fever | increased number of white blood cells |
| natural killer cells | show up in any battle, aid in killing |
| antigen | trigger specific diseases |
| antibody | special proteins that destroy pathogens |
| lymphocyte | key cells of immiune systems |
| b-cell | made by t-cells, make antibodies |
| aggulation | linking antibodies to viruses |
| plasma cells | make antibodies |
| memory cells | stay to help keep diseases from comming back |
| vaccination | injection of a weakenedor mild form of a pathogen used to produce immunity |
| allergy | body's overreaction to antigens |
| histamine | symptoms of allergies |
| asthma | worst kind of allergic reaction |
| louis pasteur | vaccine for anthrax, rabies |
| jonas salk | polio vaccine |
| edward jenner | disscovered the 1st vaccine |
| active immunity | produced by body when stimmulated by vaccine or by exposure to a pathogen |
| passive immunity | when antibodies roduced by other animlas against a pathogen are injected into the blood stream |
