Anatomical system that protects the body from foreign substances, cells, and tissues by producing the immune response and that includes especially the thymus, spleen, lymphoid tissue, lymphocytes including the B cells and T cells, and antibodies. [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immune_system ]
Term information
- MESH:D007107
- UMLS:C0020962 (ncithesaurus:Immune_System)
- VHOG:0001247
- BTO:0005810
- XAO:0003152
- Wikipedia:Immune_system
- BILA:0000104
- NCIT:C12735
- AAO:0011003
- SCTID:362590003
- FMA:9825
- ZFA:0001159
- TAO:0001159
- MA:0002711
- GAID:328
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Anatomical system that protects the body from foreign substances, cells, and tissues by producing the immune response and that includes especially the thymus, spleen, lymphoid tissue, lymphocytes including the B cells and T cells, and antibodies.
The antibody-based immune system defined by the presence of the major histocompatibility complex (MHC), T cell receptor (TCR), B cell receptor (BCR) or recombination activating genes (RAGs) is known beginning from jawed fishes.[well established][VHOG]
Term relations
- non-connected functional system
- capable of some immune system process
- protects some multicellular organism
- existence ends during some fully formed stage