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In immunology, stimulation by antigens present in the organism.  

Multiple infarcts of the spleen that cause it to become fibrotic and nonfunctioning; seen in sickle cell anemia.  

The feeling that a part of the body that has been removed is still present.  

Awareness of the odor of one’s own body.  

The fairly normal member of asymmetrical conjoined twins, the other twin being dependent on the autosite for its nutrition.  

Diagnosis through serum from the patient’s blood.  

Septicemia from resident bacterial flora or their toxins.  

Sensitivity to one’s own cells, fluids, or tissues.  

Intravenous injection of a patient’s blood that has been collected from a site in which bleeding had occurred, such as the abdominal or pleural cavity.  

Exhibiting an immune response against the body’s own antigens.