Meaning of nonself | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Any entity other than oneself.
   countable, uncountable
2. All agents and substances that are not the body's own.
   uncountable
3. Anatta.
   countable, uncountable

Examples

“In plants, the ability to recognize self from nonself plays an important role in fertilization, because self-fertilization will result in less diverse offspring than fertilization with pollen from another individual.”

“In his classic monograph describing the clonal selection theory of the immune response, Burnet (1959) suggested that the immune system distinguishes between self (no antibody response) and nonself (antibody response).”

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