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  • 1Immune 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,… …

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  • 2Immune 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… …

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  • 3Immune 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… …

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  • 4Immune — Im*mune , a. [L. immunis. See {Immunity}.] 1. Exempt; protected. {Im*mu nize}, v. t. [1913 Webster] 2. (Med.) Protected from disease due to the action of the immune system, especially by having been inoculated against or previously exposed to a… …

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  • 5immune — im·mune /i myün/ adj: having immunity: exempt Merriam Webster’s Dictionary of Law. Merriam Webster. 1996. immune …

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  • 6immune globulin — n globulin from the blood of a person or animal immune to a particular disease called also immune serum globulin * * * immunoglobulin. [USP] a concentrated preparation containing mostly gamma globulins, predominantly IgG, from a large pool of… …

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  • 7immune 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… …

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  • 8immune — [i myo͞on′] adj. [ME immuin < L immunis, free from public service, exempt < in , without + munia, duties, functions < IE * moini : see COMMON] 1. protected against something disagreeable or harmful 2. not susceptible to some specified… …

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  • 9immune system — im*mune sys tem, n. (Biol.) The complex of cells, cellular processes, and substances within and diffused throughout an organism which allow the organism to counteract or destroy noxious foreign substances introduced into the body, destroy… …

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  • 10immune system — Anat. 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… …

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