Some stuff you ought to know.

1. What is lymph, what are lymph capillaries.
Lymph vessels get larger and larger and eventually dump lymph into the right and left ____________ veins.

2. Differentiate between lymph nodes and nodules.
Where are they found and what are their functions?
List three particularly strategically placed groups of nodes.
What are "swollen glands" and what causes them?
What are your tonsils and why are most doctors less likely to do a tonsillectomy than they use to?

3. Where is your spleen, what is its function in both the fetus and you?

4. Where is your thymus and what good is it?

5. What is immunity?

6. What are T-cells, B-cells, plasma cells, antibodies, antigens?

7. How is cell-mediated immunity different from humoral immunity?
What do the memory cells do?

8. Vaccines: what are the kinds of antigens used to make a vaccine?
What are the primary and secondary responses?

9. Define and give examples of  passive natural and artificial immunity, active natural and artificial immunity.

10. And as we get older....