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Definition Flashcards

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Lymphocyte

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Cells that allow the body to remember and recognise previous invaders and help the body destroy them

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Antigen

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Something that enters the body that isn’t recognised including splinters and viruses

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Epidemic

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Wide outbreak of infection in a community that effects more than one person at a time

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Excrete

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To get rid of waste in the body

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Immunity

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The body’s ability to ward of disease

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Herd immunity

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When people within a community gain immunity from other people in that community having immunity

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Inoculation

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Immunisation

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Microbe

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Micro organism

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Normal floras

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Helpful non-pathogenic microorganism

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Pandemic

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Epidemic over a wider spread, many different countries

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Pathogen

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Micro organisms with the ability to cause infection

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Reservoir

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An area in which pathogenic microbes reside that provides the right conditions for them to grow

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Secretion

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A substance that is produced by the cells in the body

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Toxins

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Poisons released from pathogenic microbes

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Antibody

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Produced by the immune system when a harmful substance is detected to fight it

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Antibiotic

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A medicine that fights bacterial infections

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Spore

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A protective coating on some bacteria that make them hard to kill at high or low temperatures

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Route of entry

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Where a pathogen enters the body

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Source of infection

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What part of the body is infected

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Contamination

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When something or someone becomes infected

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Phagocyte

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White blood cell that protects the body by ingesting pathogens or dead cells

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Faeces

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Bodily waste derived from ingested food

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Anstiseptic

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Free of contamination of micro organisms

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Enzyme

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Biological catalyst

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Leukocyte

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White blood cell

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Haemaglobin

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Red blood cells

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