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immune system

im·mune sys·tem (plural im·mune sys·tems)


noun 
Definition:
 
system that recognizes and opposes disease: the interacting combination of all the body's ways of recognizing cells, tissues, objects, and organisms that are not part of itself, and initiating the immune response to fight them

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