Immune system

Broader Terms

anatomy

Narrower Terms

antigen presenting cell, complement, leukocyte, lymphatic system, mast cell

Facts

The immune system is the body's defense against infectious organisms and other invaders.
The human immune system is a truly amazing constellation of responses to attacks from outside the body.
The immune system is a complex network of organs containing cells that recognize foreign substances in the body and destroy them.
A complex system that distinguishes us from everything foreign to us.

Post Topic About Immune system

user navigation

This page was last modified on 6 March 2008, at 00:32. This page has been accessed 2,931 times.

About Health Encyclopedia

SteadyHealth.com Encyclopedia is a service who provides descriptions and explanations of health related terms. Initially, information in the encyclopedia is mostly generated by artifical intelligence. However link relations between terms are edited by human experts. Thus, every user is encouraged to add non-existent terms in the encyclopedia or to edit parts generated by artifical intelligence(robot). Do NOT edit or delete parts which are not explicitly marked with following label: (generated by robot; please edit if you find it inaccurate). You're free and encouraged to write additional information for any term. To do so, you should first create an account by clicking on the link in the upper right corner. Once you're registered and logged in you may proceed to adding new encyclopedia terms or editing existing one.

More details about adding and editing pages you can find here:

Disclaimer
Some parts of the SteadyHealth.com Encyclopedia are generated by artifical intelligence algorithm. Those parts may not represent actual meaning of the encyclopedia term since artifical intelligence algorithm is not 100% accurate. Generated parts are marked with following label: (generated by robot; please edit if you find it inaccurate). SteadyHealth.com is not liable for accuracy of information provided in the Health Encyclopedia.