English-Czech translations for immune system

• imunitní systém
  Poškozuje nervovou soustavu a imunitní systém a je škodlivá zejména pro novorozence a děti. It damages the nervous system and immune system and is especially harmful to babies and children.
  Děti, které mají slabší imunitní systém a jejichž těla se rychleji dehydrují, jsou zvlášť ohroženy. Children, who have weaker immune systems and whose bodies dehydrate faster, are particularly endangered.
  Je vědecky dokázáno, že některé druhy geneticky modifikovaných organismů se podílejí na vzniku alergií a oslabují imunitní systém. Some of them have been scientifically proven to be implicated in allergies and to undermine the immune system.

Definition of immune system

• 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

Related words

• innate immune system
• non-specific immune system
• adaptive immune system
• acquired immune system
• specific immune system