The system in the body that enables us to fight off germs and diseases.
Example: People who are HIV positive have a reduced immune system.
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Immune response to self or foreign antigens. Image © Terese Winslow A system that provides an organism with a defense against infection. In higher organisms it is afforded by the presence of circulating antibodies and leukocytes (white blood cells). Antibodies are manufactured specifically...
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A complex system that is responsible for distinguishing us from everything foreign to us, and for protecting us against infections and foreign substances. The immune system works to seek and kill invaders.
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<immunology> The body system, made up of many organs and cells, that defends the body against infection, disease and foreign substances. The immune system is often stimulated in specific ways to fight cancer cells. ... (16 Dec 1997) ...
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a complex system of cellular and molecular components whose primary function is distinguishing self from nonself and defense against foreign organisms or substances; see also immune response. The primary cellular components are lymphocytes and macrophages, and the primary molecular components are antibodies and lymphokines. Granulocy...
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The body system, made up of many organs and cells, that defends the body against infection, disease and foreign substances. The immune system is often stimulated in specific ways to fight cancer cells.
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(Humans as organisms) the body's defence system against diseases and infections
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(Learning Modules / Psychology / Stress) The system, including lymphocytes, that protects the body from disease causing viruses and bacteria.
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is the name given to the body`s response to protect us from disease and invasion from foreign bodies. Once our body has been invaded, the immune system copies the invading body and our defence mechanism so that should we be invaded again we are ready to attack. The reason why AIDS has taken on such importance in the last few years is th...
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The body's defence against foreign substances, eg bacteria, viruses and parasites.
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Immune system: A complex system that is responsible for distinguishing us from everything foreign to us, and for protecting us against infections and foreign substances. The immune system works to seek and kill invaders. If a person is born with a severely defective immune system, death from infection by a virus bacterium, fungus or parasite may oc...
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a collection of cells and proteins that works to protect the body from potentially harmful, infectious microorganisms, such as bacteria, viruses, and fungi.
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the body system that fights and protects against infections
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different types of cells, tissues and enzymes all cooperating with each other that identify and eliminate threatening foreign elements from our bodies. Each part of the immune system network has it's own specialized task. The immune system can remember its response later if the foreign substance invades the body again
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A complex system of organs and processes in the body responsible for fighting disease. Its primary function is to identify foreign substances in the body (including bacteria, viruses, fungi, parasites or transplanted organs and tissues) and develop a defense against them. This defense is known as the immune response.
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The complex system in the body responsible for fighting disease. Its primary
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System in the body that fights infection and causes allergic reactions. Includes the lymph glands, spleen and white blood cells.
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noun a system (including the thymus and bone marrow and lymphoid tissues) that protects the body from foreign substances and pathogenic organisms by producing the immune response
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a collection of cells and proteins that works to protect the body from potentially harmful, infectious microorganisms, such as bacteria, viruses, and fungi.
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One of the eleven major body organ systems in vertebrates; defends the internal environment against invading microorganisms and viruses and provides defense against the growth of cancer cells.
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A system that works to protect the body from harmful substances. Harmful substances include: micro-organisms, viruses, and foreign objects.
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A network of special organs and cells which function together, defending the body from being attacked by viruses and bacteria.
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a collection of cells and proteins that works to protect the body from potentially harmful, infectious microorganisms, such as bacteria, viruses, and fungi.
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a diffuse, complex network of interacting cells, cell products, and cell-forming tissues that protects the body from pathogens and other foreign substances, destroys infected and malignant cells, and removes cellular debris: the system includes the thymus, spleen, lymph nodes and lymph tissue, stem cells, white blood cells, antibodies, and lymph......
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a collection of cells and proteins that works to protect the body from potentially harmful, infectious microorganisms, such as bacteria, viruses, and fungi.
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