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immunopathology
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immunopathology /im·mu·no·pa·thol·o·gy/ (-pah-thol´ah-je)
1. the branch of biomedical science concerned with immune reactions associated with disease, whether the reactions be beneficial, without effect, or harmful.
2. the structural and functional manifestations associated with immune responses to disease.immunopatholog´ic

immunopathology
[-pəthol′əjē]
1 the study of disease processes that have an immunologic cause.
2 injury induced by antibodies or other products of an immune response.

immunopathology [im″u-no-pah-thol´o-je]
1. that branch of biomedical science concerned with immune responses to disease, with immunodeficiency diseases, and with diseases caused by immune mechanisms.
2. the structural and functional manifestations associated with immune responses to disease or with diseases caused by immune mechanisms. adj., adj immunopatholog´ic.

immunopathology
1. that branch of biomedical science concerned with immune reactions associated with disease, whether the reactions be beneficial, without effect, or harmful.
2. the structural and functional manifestations of the immune response involved in a disease.


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Subsequent reexposure to the antigen can result in an immunopathologic adverse reaction, such as a Th2 (T-helper 2)-type acute allergic reaction or asthmatic response, or contact hypersensitivity-type reaction, such as allergic contact dermatitis (Sheaarer and Fleisher 2003).
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