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 ______.
A) nonspecific resistance
B) specific resistance
C) acquired immunity
D) adaptive immunity
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