immune function
Disease-fighting capacity
Immune function is the body's ability to defend itself against disease, infection, and foreign substances.
The term appears in medical contexts discussing what strengthens or weakens this capacity: Sleep deprivation impairs immune function.
Certain foods, exercise habits, and medications can support or suppress immune function.
- B cellAntibody-secreting immune cell
- cytokineImmune signaling molecule
- inflammationProtective tissue response
- lymphocyteImmune system white cell
- antibodyProtein targeting foreign substances
monocyte · natural killer cell · antigen · mast cell · interleukin · inflammatory response · vaccine · macrophage · allergies · T cell · phagocytosis · fever · cold and flu · wellness · vitamin C · infection · bone marrow · lymph nodes
- liver functionsdetoxification, drug metabolism, protein synthesis, bile salts, coagulation factors
- immunityantibodies, T cells, lymphocytes, white blood cells, vaccine
- physiologymetabolism, circulation, respiration, homeostasis, digestion
- immunologyantibodies, antigens, T cells, white blood cells, lymphocytes
- psychoneuroimmunologystress response, cortisol, cytokines, stress hormones, mind-body connection
- seleniumselenite, trace mineral, trace element
immune functionimmunodeficiency
Weakened disease-fighting capacity
immune suppression · immunocompromise · immunosuppression · immune deficiency · susceptibility
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