immune reaction
a bodily defense reaction that recognizes an invading substance (an antigen: such as a virus or fungus or bacteria or transplanted organ) and produces antibodies specific against that antigen
• Syn:
immune response, immunologic response
• Topics:
fungus, bacteria, bacterium
• Hypernyms:
reaction, response
• Hyponyms:
anamnestic response, anamnestic reaction, humoral immune response, cell-mediated immune response, complement fixation
• Part Meronyms:
complement
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