Key Terms Related to the Immune System and Disease
This text highlights key terms important for the study of the immune system and disease.
Topics
- acellular
- active immunity
- adaptive immunity
- allergy
- antibody
- antigen
- antigen-presenting cell (APC)
- apoptosis
- attenuation
- autoantibody
- autoimmunity
- B cell
- capsid
- cell-mediated immune response
- complement system
- cytokine
- cytopathic
- cytotoxic T lymphocyte (TC)
- dendritic cell
- effector cell
- glycoprotein
- helper T lymphocyte (TH)
- humoral immune response
- hypersensitivity
- immune tolerance
- immunodeficiency
- inflammation
- innate
- immunity
- interferon
- lymph
- lymphocyte
- macrophage
- major histocompatibility class (MHC) I
- major
- histocompatibility class (MHC) II molecule
- mast cell
- memory cell
- monocyte
- natural killer (NK) cell
- neutrophil
- passive immunity
- primary immune response
- secondary immune response
- T cell
- vaccine
- viral envelope
- virion
- white blood cell