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What is the definition or description of: immunosuppression?
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Impaired immunity: Any treatment, medication or disease that affects the function of a part of your immune response. Some forms of immunosuppression are more severe than others depending on what parts of the immune system are affected.
Answered 10/7/2014
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Lowered defenses: Our immune systems are complex, with defense functions against external threats and internal functions that define us as unique individuals. Therapeutic medications to control diseases of overactivity of the immune system (like lupus) or to prevent rejection of transplanted organs we want to trick the body into considering "self" have consequences caused by unwanted actions on this system.
Answered 11/15/2013
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