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| A structure that causes the formation of an antibody |
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| A protein formed in response to an antigen |
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| What are the 5 classes of antigens? |
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| Watery liquid filtered out of the blood plasma into cellular spaces made of nutrients and electrolytes |
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| What do lymph capillaries do? |
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| Collect lymph from tissues |
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| What are lacteals and what do they do? |
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| Special lymph capillaries in villi of small intestines and they absorb fat soluble products of digestion and vitamin A |
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| What is the skeletal muscle group and what does it do? |
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| Compression of lymph vessels by muscle movement and it pumps the lymph |
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| What is the respiratory pump and what does it do? |
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| Breathing, particularly deep breathing pumps lymph in the chest area |
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| What is the cistern chyli? |
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| When lymph vessels join from the lower extremities in front of the vertebrae- becoming the thoracic duct |
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| What does the thoracic duct do? |
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| Accept lymph from the upper left of the quadrant and empties lymph into the left subclavian vein. Flaps prevent back-flow of blood into the duct |
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| What does the right subclavian do? |
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| Accepts lymph from the upper right quadrant |
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| What are lymph nodes and what do they do? |
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| Small masses of tissue that can incubate lymphocytes and monocytes |
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| What are nodules and what do they do? |
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| Collect lymph and are larger than nodes |
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Macro=large or big
Phage=to eat
They are cells that eat stuff such as bacteria |
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| Specialized lymphocytes that make antibodies |
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| What are nosocomial infections? |
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| Infections caught from health care institutions or people |
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| What are health care institutions? |
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| Concentrations of sick people and people caring for them. Hence the "pathogens" get passed around by patients, nurses, doctors, and other personnel including the janitor |
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| What are the 8 modes of transmission? |
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| Flies, fingers, fomites, food, feces, blood, sex, and airborne |
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| What are the leading offenders? |
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| Why is it hard to create infection control for Staph and pseudomonas? |
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| Because they have become resistant to most antibiotics |
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| What are defenses for staph and pseudomonas? |
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| Wash hands, cleanliness, universal precautions |
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| Where are the three major sets of lymph nodes? |
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| Inguinal (crotch or pelvic area), Axillary (arm pits), Cervical (neck) |
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| What is the name for AIDS in Africa? |
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| What are the blood borne pathogens? |
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| AIDS, Hepatitis (B,C,D,G,H), KJD, parasites (chagas, lyme, catscratch, toxoplasmosis) |
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| What are universal precautions to avoiding blood borne pathogens? |
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| Gloves for everybody and masks when necessary |
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| What are the four ways to avoid blood borne pathogens? |
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| Universal precautions, needle sticks, IV drug abuse/non IV drug abuse, and transfusions |
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| What are peyer's patches? |
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| Immune tissue in the small intestine |
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| What type of tissue are tonsils made out of and what do they do? |
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| Immune tissue; filter the lymph |
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| What type of tissue is the thymus made of and what does it do |
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| Immune tissue; Large in youth and gone in adults, Makes T-lymphocytes. |
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| When does the thymus disappear? |
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| When you are done learning all the diseases the thymus shrinks and disappears |
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| Recognize foreign antigens |
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| When is the infant immune system mature? |
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| Where were B-cells discovered? |
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| What is Hodgkin's disease? |
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| Cancer of the lymphatic cells. Cells don't function properly. Immuncompromised |
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| What are the 3 functions of the spleen? |
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1. Make lymphs and monocytes
2. Contain plasma cells (make antibodies)
3. RE cells (macrophages) phagocitize RBC's and foreign antigens (pathogens) |
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| What do natural killer cells do? |
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| Roam the body (approx. 10% of lymphs) looking for something to attack and kill |
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| What do natural killer cells also attack and how do they do that? |
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| Tumors; Contacting them, rupturing and releasing chemicals |
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| Blood and lymph very specific |
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