nonself

[non-self]

non·self

[non-self]
noun Immunology.
any antigen-bearing foreign material that enters the body and normally stimulates an attack by the body's immune system (distinguished from self).

Origin:
1870–75; non- + self
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Nonself is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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Medical Dictionary

nonself non·self (nŏn-sělf')
n.
That which the immune system identifies as foreign to the body.

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