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Undergraduate 2
07/17/2012

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photophobia
Definition
is a symptom of abnormal intolerance to visual perception of light.[3] As a medical symptom photophobia is not a morbid fear or phobia, but an experience of discomfort or pain to the eyes due to light exposure or by presence of actual physical photosensitivity of the eyes,[4] though the term is sometimes additionally applied to abnormal or irrational fear of light such as heliophobia
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Ab
Definition
antibody
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Ag
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antigen
Term
what activates the T cell
Definition
Ag Presenting Cell (APC)
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MHC1
Definition
Major histocompatibility complex protein on all cells
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MHC2
Definition
on immune cells
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shmoo
Definition
yeast produce it
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syndrome
Definition
collection of symptoms
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hantavirus pulmonary syndrome
Definition
(HPS) Sin Nombre
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Malaria
Definition
mosquitos
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whooping cough
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paralyzes cilia of trachea and destroys ciliated cells. 90% mortality rate in infants under 6 mo old
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tuberculosis
Definition
need to be really long contact. prisons. group homes. bacteria can be carried on dust. liquefy lung tissue
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