immune

• immune system


  protects body from any disease
• Phag/o


  eat, swallow
• Phagocytes


  cells that engulfs foreign substances
• Immunology


  Study of immune system
• -phylaxis


  protection
• prophylaxis


  action taken to prevent disease
• Non-specific immune response


  general defensive

  • when virus enter body, phagocytes will act

  • complement assists phagocytes to destroy virus
• Neutophils


  circulates in blood
• Microphages


  Stays in tissue
• specific immune response


  more aggressive and reacts only in specific type of virus/bacteria
• humoral immune response


  Immunoglobin & anti-bodies kills antigens - reacts in viruses and bacteria
• B-cells


  __ turns into plsma
• cell-mediated immune response


  reacts in cancer cells, infected tissues, and transplanted organs
• Acquire Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS)


  - transmissible

  - rare type of cancer
• Anaphylaxis


  allergic reaction

  • hives, drop bp and o2, abdominal cramps
• Auto immune disease


  - self-immune; cause body to fail
• Sytemic Lupus Erythematosus


  body unable to recognize own cells
• Hypersensitivity


  an exaggerated response by the immune system to a particular substance
• immuno-deficiency


  lack of immunity
• opportunistic infection


  caused by pathogens; acts when your body is already weak
• Elisa test


  blood screening for HIV
• human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)


  a virus that attacks the immune system
• Western blot test


  test for viral DNA
• immunozation


  short term for immunity; vaccination
• immunosuppression


  to slow down immunity
• laryngoplasty


  surgical repair of the voice box
• bronchitis


  inflammation of bronchi
• broncholectasis


  dilation of bronchioles
• lobectomy


  removal of lobe of lung
• tracheostomy


  incision in trachea
• pneumonia


  infection of lungs
• hypoxemia


  decrease of oxygen
• Spin/o -


  BreThing
• spyrometry


  Meassure breathing
• IRV


  Inspiraton reserve volume
• ERV


  expiration reserve volume