Lymphatic System & Immunity

Question 1

Important for the protection if the body, and also carries out other functions

Answer 1

Lymphatic System

Question 2

Lymphatic System includes___?

Answer 2

Lymph, Spleen, Lymphatic Vessels, Lymph Nodes, Tonsils, and Thymus

Question 3

Some fluids moves from the tissue spaces into____ to become lymphs

Answer 3

Lymphatic Capillaries

Question 4

Resembles small veins; its compression causes lymph to move forward

Answer 4

Lymphatic Vessels

Question 5

Three groups of Tonsils

Answer 5

Palatine, Pharyngeal and Lingual Tonsil

Question 6

Loc. on each side of the posterior opening of the oral cavity; commonly referred as “tonsils”

Answer 6

Palatine Tonsils

Question 7

Loc. near the internal opening of the nasal cavity

Answer 7

Pharyngeal Cavity

Question 8

Posterior to the tongue’s surface

Answer 8

Lingual Tonsils

Question 9

Roughly the size of a clenched fist

Answer 9

Spleen

Question 10

Bilobed gland roughly triangular in shape

Answer 10

Thymus

Question 11

Ability to resist damage from pathogens

Answer 11

Immunity

Question 12

Nonspecific resistance; body recognizes and destroys certain pathogens, but response is the same

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Innate Immunity

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Specific Immunity; body recognizes and destroys pathogens, response improves each time the pathogen is encountered

Answer 13

Adaptive Immunity

Question 14

Ability to recognize a particular substance

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Specificity

Question 15

Ability of adaptive immunity to “remember” previous encounters with a particular sunstance

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Memory

Question 16

Prevents pathogens and chemicals from entering from enetring the body in two days

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Physical Barriers

Question 17

Molecules responsible for many aspects of iinate immunity

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Chemical Mediators

Question 18

Proteins that protect the body against viral infections

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Interferons

Question 19

Accumulation of fluid, dead neutrophils, and other cells at a site of infection

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Pus

Question 20

An inflammation response confined to a soecific area of the body

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Local Inflammation

Question 21

An inflammatory response taht is generally distributed throughout the body

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Systemic Inflammation

Question 22

Sunstances that stimulate adaptive immune response

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Antigens

Question 23

Antigens introduced from outside the body

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Foreign Antigens

Question 24

Molecules produced by body cells to identify them as “self” part of the body

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Self-antigens

Question 25

Results when an individual is exposed to an antigen and their immune system’s response is the cause of immunity

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Active Immunity

Question 26

Occurs when another person develops immunity and it’s transferred toa non immune individual

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Passive Immunity

Question 27

Antigen is deliberately introduced into an individual to stimulate the immune system

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Active Artificial Immunity

Question 28

When antibodies are transferred from mother to child

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Passive Natural Immunity

Question 29

Results from natural exposure to an antigen, that stimulates the immune system to respond against the antigen

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Active Natural Immunity

Question 30

Involves the collecting of antibodies from one source and introducing them to an infected individual

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Passive Artificial Immunity