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What is the medical term meaning a foreign substance?

The medical term for a foreign substance is "antigen." An antigen is any substance that the immune system identifies as foreign and triggers an immune response.


What is a substance that causes an immune response called?

Antigen


What is a substance that the body regards as foreign?

One term that is used is antigen. An antiGEN will GENerate an ANTIbody which will 'kill' the antigen.


What is the substance made by the body in response to stimulation by an antigen?

substance


What is a substance made in response to an antigen?

Antibodies


What is the foreign material called that stimulates the production of an antibody?

do you mean antigens? An antigen is any (foreign) substance that stimulates an immune reaction.


How are the terms antigen and antibody related?

An antigen are the germs that enter the body, and antibodies are the thing that the body produces to kill them.


What is antigene and antibody?

An antigen is a substance that can invoke an immune response. While an antibody is the immune system's response to an antigen. Antibodies, act by directly neutralizing the antigen and/or bind to the antigen and signaling marcophages to phagocytose the antigen.


Substance produced by the body that destroys the antigen?

antibody


Any substance released by invading pathogens?

antigen


Is any substance that the body regards as being foreign and includes viruses bacteria toxins and transplanted tissues?

antigen- any substance the body regards as foreign


What does an antigen do?

An antigen is a foreign body. It is used as a "template" to begin an appropriate immune response.