Immune System - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: immune systemimmune system
The complex of cells cellular processes and substances within and diffused throughout an organism which allow the organism to counteract or destroy noxious foreign substances introduced into the body destroy infectious agents such as bacteria and viruses destroy malignant cells and remove cellular debris thus protecting the organism against many of the potentially harmful external agents and internal events that could lead to sickness or death The system has numerous interacting components including circulating antibodies antibody producing cells white blood cells and lymphokines lymph tissue and lymph nodes and stem cells which may differentiate into other types of cell together with the thymus and spleen The system is responsible for the phenomenon of immunity3 See also immunoglobulin and antibody...
immunology
The science which studies the immune system the processes of immunity and the nature of the immune response and techniques of analysis which use the immune response...
Immunity
Immunity, exemption, not likely to be affected.Immunity in short is no liability. It is an immunity from the legal power of some other person. The correlative of immunity is disability, Shanti Kumar R Chanji v. House Insurance Co. Ltd., AIR 1974 SC 1719 (1722).Immunity, is -- 'freedom or exemption from penality, burden or duty'. Immunity from prosecution under section 64 mean freedom from punishment during a proceeding instituted and carried on by law, Jasbir Singh v. Vipin Kumar Jaggi, AIR 2001 SC 2734. [See Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act (61 of 1985), s. 64]Means any exemption from a duty, liability, or service of process, esp., such an exemption granted to a public official, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 752.Is an exemption or freedom from general obligation, duty, burden or penalty, Raja Ram Pal v. Hon'ble Speaker, Lok Sabha, (2007) 3 SCC 184....
privileges and immunities clause
privileges and immunities clause often cap P&I&C 1 : a clause in Article IV of the U.S. Constitution stating that the citizens of each state of the U.S. shall be entitled to all the privileges and immunities of citizens of the other states 2 : a clause in Amendment XIV to the U.S. Constitution stating that no state shall make or enforce any law that abridges the privileges or immunities of the citizens of the U.S. called also privileges or immunities clause ...
immunoglobulin
any one of a class of globular proteins which are antibodies and are produced by the immune system in animals...
morindin
A yellow dyestuff C27H30O14 extracted from the root bark of an East Indian plant Morinda citrifolia or from the bark of Coprosma australis The substance is also found in the fruit of the Morinda citrifolia called noni which is touted by some merchants to have a stimulatory effect on the immune system It is a disaccharide derivative of anthracenedione...
absolute immunity
absolute immunity see immunity ...
charitable immunity
charitable immunity see immunity ...
constitutional immunity
constitutional immunity see immunity ...
corporate immunity
corporate immunity see immunity ...
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