FD Flashcards
What cells fight disease?
White Blood Cells (WBC).
What is a vaccination?
You are injected with a weak, dead or in active form if a pathogen.
Antibiotic
A medicine that destroys micro-organisms .
Antigen
Something that works with the antibody to get rid of the pathogen and trap them.
Hair on a cell which traps bacteria
Cilia
Antibody
Something that fights away the pathogen.
Produces antibodies, which are a type of WBC
Lmphocyte
Mucus
Traps micro-organisms
Mutation
The changing of a gene
Pademic
A worldwide spread
Pathogen
Is a micro-organisms that causes disease
Phagocyte
Engulfs the pathogen
Semmelweiss
Told doctors to wash their hands in antiseptics before moving onto other pathogens
Epidemics
Local spread in one country
Antiviral
Effective against viruses