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Question: 1st line defense
Answer:
Physical defense to protect the body against pathogens (skin, tears, mucous membranes)

Question: Key characteristic of 1st line defense
Answer:
innate resistance the MOD that we are born with. Includes 1st/2nd line defense immediate and
nonspecific.

Question: Examples of normal 1st line defense
Answer:
skin & glands and membranes/ gland of the body. Examples: skin, sweat, tears, eyelashes, cilia of cells in
bronchi, cough reflex, saliva, stomach acid

Question: Examples of stressors can be breach defense
Answer:
lacerations/ skin areas, dry eye syndrome, Sjogrens syndrome, cigarette smoking, cough/ protective
reflex suppression from head injury, antibiotics, urinary retention, use of harsh soaps or douching

Question: SHEP
Answer:
- Swelling
- Heat
- Erythema (redness)
- Pain

Question: A B C
Answer:
Normal inflammation--local external breach of the 1st line of defense with SHEP Normal
inflammation--local external breach the 1st line of defense-- purulent drainage ( cloudy + yellow
drainage/ exudate = inflammatory soup) - cloudy/ purulent drainage is evidence that infection/ microbe is
present Normal inflammation--local external breach the 1st line of defense with clear yellow exudate-
serous exudate

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,Question: D Mast cell duty
Answer:
Normal inflammation--local external-- patient had some kind of chest/neck surgry. Incision ( skin cut)
hidden behind the bandage. Serosanguinous drainage is present exiting from patient. play an important
role in how the immune system responds to certain bacteria and parasites and they help control other
types of immune responses




Question: Local inflammatory mediators
Answer:

, HLP
- histamine
- leukotrienes
- prostaglandins released when Mast cell is degranulated

Question: Neutrophil duty
Answer:
Starts the healing process, if they need more they call the macrophages

Question: Macrophages three-fold duty
Answer:
immune defense, tissue repair, and maintenance of tissue homeostasis

Question: Degranulation
Answer:
stimulate irritant or injury mast cell will degranulate Breakdown of the skin ( leaked chemicals )

Question: Granulating
Answer:
tissue- pink, healthy, healing tissue build-up of skin

Question: Defect in phagocytic functions
Answer:
leukopenia neutropenia chemotactic defects impaired functions

Question: Defect in phagocytic functions: Quantitative defects
Answer:
Leukopenia neutropenia

Question: Leukopenia
Answer:
deficiency of WBCs

Question: Neutropenia
Answer:
specific deficiency in neutrophils

Question: Defect in phagocytic functions: Qualitative defects

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