Ch 9

Question 1

define antibody

Answer 1

protective agent produced in B lymphocytes in response to the presence of a specific foreign substance (antigen)

Question 2

define antigen

Answer 2

substance recognized as harmful to the host

Question 3

define bile pigment

Answer 3

substance derived from the breakdown of hemoglobin and excreted by the liver

Question 4

define cytokine

Answer 4

chemical substance produced by certain cells that initiates, inhibits, increases, or decreases activity in other cells

Question 5

define dendritic cell

Answer 5

monocyte that displays antigens on ints cell surface and presents them to components of the immune system

Question 6

define immunocompetent

Answer 6

pssessing the ability to develop an immune response

Question 7

define natural killer cells

Answer 7

lymphocytes that destroy virally infected cells a tumor cells

Question 8

aden/o

Answer 8

gland

Question 9

agglutin/o

Answer 9

clumping, gluing

Question 10

blast/o

Answer 10

embryonic cell

Question 11

chrom/o

Answer 11

color

Question 12

granul/o

Answer 12

granule

Question 13

immun/o

Answer 13

immune, immunity, safe

Question 14

morph/o

Answer 14

form, shape, structure

Question 15

poikil/o

Answer 15

varied, irregular

Question 16

sider/o

Answer 16

iron

Question 17

-blast

Answer 17

embyronic cell

Question 18

-globin

Answer 18

protein

Question 19

-phil

Answer 19

attraction for

Question 20

-phylaxis

Answer 20

protection

Question 21

aniso-

Answer 21

unequal

Question 22

define amenia

Answer 22

a deficiency in the number of erythrocytes or the amount of hemoglobin within the blood cells

Question 23

define allergy

Answer 23

abnormal immune response

Question 24

define autoimmune disease

Answer 24

when the immune system fails to accurately differentiate foreign antigens from the body’s own antigens and begins its destructive behavior to the detriment of the indivudual

Question 25

define leukemia

Answer 25

when the body replaces healthy blood and bone marrow cells with immature nonfunctional cells

Question 26

define AIDS

Answer 26

infectious disease caused by the HIV virus that destroys the CD4 cells of the immune system such that the pt falls victim to infections the wouldnt normally

Question 27

define coagulation disorder

Answer 27

any disruption in the ability to form blood clots or control bleeding

Question 28

define disseminated intravascular coagulation

Answer 28

abnorm blood clotting in small vessels throughout the body that cuts of oxygen supply to tissues

Question 29

define hemophilia

Answer 29

congenital hereditary disorder characterized by a deficiency in a clotting factorresulting in prolonged bleeding