Memorize Clinical Immunology: 77 Flashcards on Autoimmune Disease, Immunotherapy and Neonatal Immunity

Read the title and you expect the Gell-Coombs classification. Read the cards and you get something else — something more useful for a first-year viva. The Immunology: Hypersensitivity, Autoimmunity & Immunotherapy deck on Flip It (deck code FL7109, 77 cards) is a survey of immunology as a discipline: its two great nineteenth-century theories, its lifespan physiology, its clinical subspecialties and the diseases that define them. Study it for definitions and orientation, not for mechanism.

Ten cards that show what the deck really is

Everything the 77 cards name

Core definitions: antigen, antibody, phagocytosis, humoral vs cell-mediated immunity, innate vs adaptive, self/nonself recognition, allograft, transplant rejection, B lymphocytes. Lymphoid organs: thymus, bone marrow, spleen, tonsils, adenoids, lymph nodes and vessels. Autoimmunity: systemic lupus erythematosus, rheumatoid arthritis, Hashimoto's thyroiditis, myasthenia gravis, Crohn's disease. Immunodeficiency: chronic granulomatous disease, AIDS, primary immune diseases. Immunotherapy regulators: IL-2, IL-10, GM-CSF, IFN-α. Neonatal and adolescent immunity: physiological immunodeficiency at birth, maternal IgG and FcRn, the six-to-nine-month glycoprotein response, 17-β-estradiol, testosterone, thymic involution, low-virulence neonatal infection by Staphylococcus and Pseudomonas. History: the plague of Athens (430 BCE) and Thucydides, Metchnikoff's cellular theory, Koch and von Behring's humoral theory, Paul Ehrlich's ricin and abrin experiments and the 1908 Nobel. Subfields: clinical, diagnostic, reproductive and ecological immunology, symbiont-mediated defence, monarch butterflies and toxic milkweed.

Two fixes that change how this deck performs

1. Add the hypersensitivity cards yourself — they are not here. The title promises hypersensitivity and the deck defines it once, in one sentence, with asthma as the example. There is no Type I / II / III / IV breakdown, no IgE mast-cell mechanism, no immune-complex disease, no delayed-type reaction. Four cards close the gap, and they are guaranteed exam items. Immunotherapy is similarly thin: cytokines and indications, but no checkpoint inhibitors, monoclonals or CAR-T.

2. The second half repeats the first. Roughly twenty cards from the back of the deck re-ask earlier material in question form — "Two broad categories of immune system disorders" reappears as "Two broad categories of diseases caused by immune system disorders", and the clonal selection, danger model, neonatal IgG and estradiol cards all come round twice. Suspend the duplicates or your retention stats will flatter you. While you are in there: one front is truncated mid-word ("respond more strongly to glycoprote"), one back reads "GM-CSF B" for GM-CSF, and Metchnikoff is spelled two ways across two cards.

Finally, 18 of these cards are word-for-word identical to the Immunology Fundamentals deck. If you have already worked through our Immunology Fundamentals study guide, treat FL7109 as a revision pass rather than new ground.

Deck FL7109 is in the Flip It library at flip-it.app.