nonself

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Any entity other than oneself.

   • 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.
2. 2

   All agents and substances that are not the body's own.

   • 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).
3. 3

   Anatta.

4. ›+ 1 more definitionshow fewer

   1. 4

      Of nonself origin.

The neighborhood