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immune body — n. ANTIBODY … English World dictionary
immune body — noun : antibody * * * immune body noun An antibody • • • Main Entry: ↑immune * * * immune body, an antibody present in blood and lymph that assists in the cytolysis of erythrocytes and other cells; amboceptor … Useful english dictionary
immune body — antibody … Medical dictionary
immune body — antibody present in the blood … English contemporary dictionary
Immune privilege — is a term used to describe certain sites in the body which are able to tolerate the introduction of antigen without eliciting an inflammatory immune response. Tissue grafts are normally recognised as foreign antigen by the body and attacked by… … Wikipedia
Immune tolerance — or immunological tolerance is the process by which the immune system does not attack an antigen.[1] It can be either natural or self tolerance , in which the body does not mount an immune response to self antigens, or induced tolerance , in which … Wikipedia
Immune tolerance in pregnancy — or gestational/maternal immune tolerance is the absence of a maternal immune response against the fetus and placenta, which thus may be viewed as unusually successful allografts, since they genetically differ from the mother.[1] In the same way,… … Wikipedia
Immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome — (IRIS) or immune reconstitution syndrome (IRS) is a condition seen in some cases of AIDS or immunosuppression, in which the immune system begins to recover, but then responds to a previously acquired opportunistic infection with an overwhelming… … Wikipedia
Immune-mediated disease — Immune mediated diseases are conditions which result from abnormal activity of the body s immune system. The immune system may over react (for example, immune mediated contact dermatitis) or start attacking the body (for example, autoimmune… … Wikipedia
immune system — n the bodily system that protects the body from foreign substances, cells, and tissues by producing the immune response and that includes esp. the thymus, spleen, lymph nodes, special deposits of lymphoid tissue (as in the gastrointestinal tract… … Medical dictionary
