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- function of immune system
- keeps body safe
- over your lifetime you build a resistance to infection
- acquired immunity
- t-cell & b-cell
- lymphocytes
- bad; make you sick
- antigens
- good; body creates them to fight infection
- antibodies
- universal donor
- blood type O
- universal recipient
- blood type AB
- low in rbc; low in hemoglobin
- anemia
- normocytic
- normal-----RBC
- normochromic
- normal color------RBC
- macrocytic
- too large-----RBC
- microcytic
- too small------RBC
- hypochromic
- too low in color------RBC
- AIDS
- acquired immunodificiency syndrome
- HIV
- human immunodificiency virus
- sarcoma, pneumonia
- opportunistic infections----HIV turns to AIDS
- lymphadenopathy
- disease of lymph nodes (swollen glands)
- body is attacking itself--rheumatoid arthritis
- autoimmune disease
- exacerbations
- symptoms are getting worse
- latent periods
- symptoms are getting better--remission
- swelling; accumulation of fluid between cells
- edema
- intercellular
- between cells
- blood doesn't clot like it should
- hemophilia
- Epstein-Barr virus
- causes mono
- body over reacts to allergen
- allergy