A communicable disease is an infectious disease that is transmitted by contact with an infected source
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TRUE
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When antibiotic drugs are prescribed, their therapeutic effect is directed toward a target organ
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How do self-antigens that are specific to tissues away from the thymus (like insulin or keratin for example) get in the thymus so that developing T cells that react to them can be deleted?
A. Dendritic cells pick them up in the periphery and carry them to the thymus. B. Specialized macrophages in the thymus filter the bloodstream and present antigens found there to developing T cells. C. A transcription factor, AIRE is expressed in thymic medullary epithelial cells, which allows these cells to express proteins normally found in other tissues. D. They do not get to the thymus, all tissue-specific T cells are deleted in the periphery. E. There are special chaperone proteins that bind to peripheral proteins and carry them to the thymus.
The female patient complains of excessive and abnormal hair growth. This will be documented as: ________.
Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).
Sometimes the injured person's own body makes the best splint (for example, taping one finger to an adjacent finger)
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