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Host Defense
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. (NCI Thesaurus)
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