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| the body's defense system against disease |
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| specialized fluid that is formed in the tissue spaces that returns excess fluids and protein molecules to the blood |
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| vessels that carry lymph to its eventual return to the circulatory system |
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| fluid located in the microscopic spaces between the cells |
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| tiny, blind-ended tubes distributed in the tissue spaces |
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| terminal vessel into which lymphatic vessels empty lymp; the duct then empties the lymph into the circulatory system |
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| short vessel into which lymphatic vessels from the right upper quadrant of the body empty lymph; the duct then empties lymph into the circulatory system at the right subclavian vein |
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| largest lymphatic vessel in the body |
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| an enlarged pouch on the thoracic duct that serves as a storage area for lymph moving towards its point of entry into the venous system |
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| performs biological filtration of lymph on its way to the circulatory system |
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| small lymphatic vessels that carry lymphatic fluid towards the lymph node |
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| return of an organ to its normal size after an enlargement; also retrograde or degenerative change |
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| masses of lymphoid tissue; protect against bacteria, each side of throat |
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| lymphoid tissue; bacteria prtoection; base of tongue |
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| tonsil near posterior opening of the nasal cavity |
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| largest lymphoid organ; filters blood, destrys worn out rbcs, salvages iron from hemoglobin, and serves as a blood resevoir |
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| surgical removal of spleen |
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| hypersensitivity of the immune system to relatively harmelss environmental antigens |
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| shock resulting from a severe allergic reaction; may be fatal |
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| the protective mechanisms that provide immediate, generic protection against any bacteria, toxin, or other injurious particle; also called innate immunity |
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| nonspecific immune response produced in response to injury resulting in redness, pain, heat, and swelling and promoting moevement of wbcs to the affected area |
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| the protective mechanisms that provide specific protection against certain type s of bacteria or toxins; adaptive immunity |
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| deliberate artificial exposure to disease to produce acquired immunity |
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| antigen binding sites, antigen receptor regions on antibody molecule; shape of a specific antigen |
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| immunity that is produced when antibodies mae antirgens unable to harm the body |
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| antibody mediated immunity |
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| rapid fire series of chemical reactions involving proteins called complements which are triggered by certain antigen reactions and result in the formation of tiny protein rings that create holes in a foreighn cell and thus cause its destruction |
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| any of several inactive enymes normally present in blood which when activated kill foreign cells by disolving them |
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| specific antibody produced from a population of identical cells |
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| fused or hybrid cells that continue to produces the same antibody as the original lymphocyte |
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| macrophage found in spaces between the liver cells |
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| macrophages that ingest particular matter in teh small air sacs of the lungs |
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| small proteins produced by the immune system that inhibits virus multiplication |
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| any of a family of many identical cells descended from a single parent cell |
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| cell that remains in reserve in the lymph nodes until its ability to secrete antibodies is needed |
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| cells that secrete copious amounts of antibody into the blood |
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