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After loading wood into a fireplace, you realize you have gotten a splinter in your finger. Within a short period of time, your finger is painful, red, and swollen, and is warm to the touch. This is an example of____

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Non specific resistance

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After loading wood into a fireplace, you realize you have gotten a splinter in your finger. Within a short period of time, your finger is painful, red, and swollen, and is warm to the touch. This is an example of non specific resistance

Non specific resistance is how our body defends us from any kind of the pathogens. This includes skin and mucous membrane, phagocytosis, inflammation, fever, production of antimicrobial substances.

Skin and mucus membranes provide the first step of defense to the body against invasion of the pathogen. The finger being warm to touch is the body defending against any invasiom

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