| immune | (n) a person who is immune to a particular infection | | immune | (adj) relating to the condition of immunity, Example: the immune system | | immune | (adj) secure against, Example: immune from taxation as long as he resided in Bermuda; immune from criminal prosecution | | immune | (adj) relating to or conferring immunity (to disease or infection), Syn. resistant | | immune | (adj) (usually followed by `to') not affected by a given influence, Example: immune to persuasion | | immune response | (n) a bodily defense reaction that recognizes an invading substance (an antigen: such as a virus or fungus or bacteria or transplanted organ) and produces antibodies specific against that antigen, Syn. immunologic response, immune reaction | | immune system | (n) a system (including the thymus and bone marrow and lymphoid tissues) that protects the body from foreign substances and pathogenic organisms by producing the immune response | | immunity | (n) (medicine) the condition in which an organism can resist disease, Syn. resistance | | immunity | (n) the quality of being unaffected by something, Example: immunity to criticism | | immunization | (n) the act of making immune (especially by inoculation), Syn. immunisation |
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| Immund | a. [ L. immundus; pref. im- not + mundus clean. ] Unclean. [ R. ] Burton. [ 1913 Webster ] | | Immundicity | n. [ Cf. F. immondicité, L. immunditia, immundities. ] Uncleanness; filthiness. [ R. ] W. Montagu. [ 1913 Webster ] | | Immune | n. One who is immune; esp., a person who is immune from a disease by reason of previous affection with the disease or inoculation. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ] | | Immune | a. [ L. immunis. See Immunity. ] 1. Exempt; protected. -- Im*mu"nize v. t. [1913 Webster] 2. (Med.) Protected from disease due to the action of the immune system, especially by having been inoculated against or previously exposed to a disease. [PJC] 3. (Med.) Of or pertaining to the immune system or the components of the immune system. [PJC] 4. Not responsive; as, immune to suggestion. [PJC] | | immune system | n. (Biol.) The complex of cells, cellular processes, and substances within and diffused throughout an organism which allow the organism to counteract or destroy noxious foreign substances introduced into the body, destroy infectious agents such as bacteria and viruses, destroy malignant cells, and remove cellular debris, thus protecting the organism against many of the potentially harmful external agents and internal events that could lead to sickness or death. The system has numerous interacting components, including circulating antibodies, antibody-producing cells, white blood cells and lymphokines, lymph tissue and lymph nodes, and stem cells which may differentiate into other types of cell, together with the thymus and spleen. The system is responsible for the phenomenon of immunity{ 3 }. See also immunoglobulin and antibody. [ PJC ] | | immunisation | n. Same as immunization. [ Chiefly Brit. ]
Syn. -- immunization. [ WordNet 1.5 ] | | Immunity | n.; pl. Immunities [ L. immunitas, fr. immunis free from a public service; pref. im- not + munis complaisant, obliging, cf. munus service, duty: cf. F. immunité. See Common, and cf. Mean, a. ] 1. Freedom or exemption from any charge, duty, obligation, office, tax, imposition, penalty, or service; a particular privilege; as, the immunities of the free cities of Germany; the immunities of the clergy. [ 1913 Webster ] 2. Freedom; exemption; as, immunity from error. [ 1913 Webster ] 3. The state of being insusceptible to disease, certain poisons, etc. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ] | | immunization | n. the act of making immune (especially by inoculation).
Syn. -- immunisation. [ WordNet 1.5 ] | | immunized | adj. 1. 1 (Med.) rendered less susceptible (to disease) by treatment with a vaccine.
Syn. -- vaccinated. [ WordNet 1.5 ] 2. rendered insusceptible. [ PJC ] | | immunoelectrophoresis | n. (Biochemistry) electrophoresis to separate antigens and antibodies. [ WordNet 1.5 ] |
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