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What is the opposite of nonspecific?
Specific!
What is the antonym of the word specific?
Nonspecific.
What are the nonspecific in the immune system?
The body is made up of a specific defense system and nonspecific defense system. The nonspecific defense system is made up of inflammation, fevers, etc. The immune system is part of the specific defense system. This is because the lysosomes in this system bind to specific antigens and have a certain role to carry out. Therefore, there aren't nonspecific defenses in the immune system.
Humans and other vertebrates have both specific and nonspecific immunity while invertebrates have only?
non specific :)
Is skin specific or nonspecific?
Yes, the skin is the most important nonspecific defense. This is because your oil and sweat glands are acidic.
What is nonspecific therapy?
Nonspecific back pain would be back pain with an unknown cause. Therefore nonspecific therapy would be either therapy of an unknown nature (ha ha) or therapy not specific to the illness/injury only. Like psychotherapy for back pain -- you could call that nonspecific therapy.
Why is the action of phagocytes considered a nonspecific response?
It is not involved with the production of any specific type of lymphocyte
Why do conditions that cause destruction of B lymphocytes and or T lymphocytes cause malfunctioning of both specific and nonspecific immune responses?
The destruction of B lymphocytes and or T lymphocytes is a cell injury. Both of these lymphocytes are needed to activate the specific and nonspecific immune responses.
Second order neurons of both specific and nonspecific ascending pathways terminate where?
Second order neurons of both specific and nonspecific ascending pathways terminate in the thalamus. From there, the thalamus sends projections to the somatosensory cortex for further processing of sensory information.
What are three accomplishments of the inflammatory response?
1)external barriers 2)nonspecific responses 3)specific responses
What does it mean to have nonspecific innate immunity?
The cells of the innate system recognize and respond to the pathogens in a specific generic way.
What is a medicine that stimulates the body's immune response to make disease-fighting molecules to attack a specific pathogen?
vaccine
