immune system

English

Noun

immune system (plural immune systems)

1. (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.

Translations

system that protects the body from foreign material and organisms

• Armenian: իմունային համակարգ (hy) (imunayin hamakarg)
• Catalan: sistema immunitari m
• Chinese:

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

• Czech: imunitní systém m
• Danish: immunforsvar (da) n
• Dutch: immuunsysteem (nl) n
• Esperanto: imuna sistemo
• Finnish: vastustuskyky (fi), immuunijärjestelmä (fi)
• French: système immunitaire (fr) m
• German: Immunsystem (de) n
• Greek: ανοσοποιητικό σύστημα (el) n (anosopoiitikó sýstima)
• Hungarian: immunrendszer (hu)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Irish: córas imdhíonachta m
• Italian: sistema immunitario (it) m
• Japanese: 免疫系 (めんえきけい, men'eki-kei)
• Kurdish:
• Navajo: naałniih yichʼą́ą́h naabaahígíí
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: immunforsvar n

  Nynorsk: immunforsvar n

• Persian: دستگاه ایمنی (dastgâh-e imeni)
• Portuguese: sistema imunológico m
• Romanian: sistem imunitar
• Russian: имму́нная систе́ма (ru) f (immúnnaja sistéma)
• Spanish: sistema inmunitario m
• Swedish: immunförsvar (sv) n, immunsystem (sv) n
• Turkish: bağışıklık sistemi (tr)
• Ukrainian: іму́нна систе́ма f (imúnna systéma)

See also

• lymphatic system