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Host Defense

Term · Environment · MLC-T-ENV-013454

Host defenses against pathology include physical barriers to pathogens, immediate nonspecific and constitutive (innate) defenses, specific inducible immune responses, metabolic and physiologic homeostatic mechanisms, detoxification, repair processes, and healing mechanisms.

Table 1. Record
IdentifierMLC-T-ENV-013454
FieldEnvironment
ReferencesNational Cancer Institute Thesaurus (CC BY 4.0)
Record as JSON 
{
  "id": "MLC-T-ENV-013454",
  "term": "Host Defense",
  "field": "Environment",
  "definition": "Host defenses against pathology include physical barriers to pathogens, immediate nonspecific and constitutive (innate) defenses, specific inducible immune responses, metabolic and physiologic homeostatic mechanisms, detoxification, repair processes, and healing mechanisms.",
  "references": [
    "National Cancer Institute Thesaurus"
  ],
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/environment/host-defense/"
}

Record 13,454 of 30,736 in Environment terminology (MLC-0121). Request the full dataset.