immune system

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Noun

immune system (plural immune systems)

2. (anatomy, immunology) The system that differentiates self from non-self and protects the body from foreign substances and pathogenic organisms by producing an immune response. It includes organs such as the thymus, the spleen and lymph nodes; tissue such as bone marrow, and lymphoid tissues such as the tonsils; cells such as lymphocytes including the B cells and T cells, and cell products such as antibodies.

Coordinate terms

• lymphatic system

Derived terms

• adaptive immune system
• artificial immune system
• innate immune system

Translations

system that protects the body from foreign material and organisms

• Armenian: իմունային համակարգ (hy) (imunayin hamakarg)
• Belarusian: іму́нная сістэ́ма f (imúnnaja sistéma)
• Bulgarian: иму́нна систе́ма f (imúnna sistéma)
• Catalan: sistema immunitari m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 免疫系統 / 免疫系统 (min⁵ jik⁶ hai⁶ tung²)

  Mandarin: 免疫系統 / 免疫系统 (zh) (miǎnyì xìtǒng)

• Czech: imunitní systém m
• Danish: immunforsvar (da) n, immunsystem n
• Dutch: immuunsysteem (nl) n
• Esperanto: imuna sistemo
• Faroese: órininkervi
• Finnish: vastustuskyky (fi), immuunijärjestelmä (fi)
• French: système immunitaire (fr) m
• German: Immunsystem (de) n
• Greek: ανοσοποιητικό σύστημα (el) n (anosopoiitikó sýstima), ανοσοποιητικό (el) n (anosopoiitikó)
• Hebrew: אימון-סיסטעם
• Hungarian: immunrendszer (hu)
• Icelandic: ónæmiskerfi n
• Irish: córas imdhíonachta m
• Italian: sistema immunitario (it) m
• Japanese: 免疫系 (ja) (めんえきけい, men'eki-kei)
• Korean: 면역계(免疫系) (myeonyeokgye)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: koendama bergiriyê f

• Navajo: naałniih yichʼą́ą́h naabaahígíí
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: immunforsvar n, immunsystem, immunapparat

  Nynorsk: immunforsvar n, immunsystem, immunapparat

• Persian: دستگاه ایمنی (dastgâh-e imeni)
• Polish: układ odpornościowy (pl) m
• Portuguese: sistema imunológico m
• Romanian: sistem imunitar
• Russian: имму́нная систе́ма (ru) f (immúnnaja sistéma)
• Slovene: imunski sistem m
• Spanish: sistema inmunitario m, sistema inmunológico m (Mexico), sistema inmune m
• Sundanese: imunisasi
• Swahili: mfumo wa kinga
• Swedish: immunförsvar (sv) n, immunsystem (sv) n
• Tagalog: sistemang pananggalang
• Tamil: நோய் எதிர்ப்பாற்றல் முறைமை (nōy etirppāṟṟal muṟaimai)
• Telugu: రోగ నిరోధక వ్యవస్థు (rōga nirōdhaka vyavasthu)
• Thai: ระบบภูมิคุ้มกัน
• Turkish: bağışıklık sistemi (tr)
• Ukrainian: іму́нна систе́ма f (imúnna systéma)
• Urdu: مدافعتی نظام
• Vietnamese: hệ miễn dịch
• Welsh: system imiwnedd m or f

Further reading

• immune system on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “immune system”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.