key terms for autoimmune

What is lymphatic fluid?

Straw colored fluid that goes between capillary blood and tissues.

What are lymphatic vessels?

Transport excess tissue fluid back into the circulatory system.

What are tonsils?

Masses of lymphatic tissue that produce lymphocytes.

What is the spleen?

A sac-like mass of lymphatic tissue located in the left abdominal cavity, just below the diaphragm.

What is the thymus?

Lymphatic and endocrine gland most active during the neonatal and preadolescent periods that produces lymphocytes.

What is immunity?

The body’s ability to resist disease.

What does autoimmune mean?

When the body’s immune system mistakenly attacks normal tissue.