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Definition of Immunisation

1. Noun. The act of making immune (especially by inoculation).

Definition of Immunisation

1. Noun. (British immunology) (alternative spelling of immunization) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Medical Definition of Immunisation

1. A process that increases an organisms reaction to antigen and therefore improves its ability to resist or overcome infection. A technique used to induce immune resistance to a specific disease in humans (or other mammals) by exposing the individual to an antigen in order to raise antibodies to that antigen. (13 Oct 1997)

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Literary usage of Immunisation

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Elements of Bacteriological Technique: A Laboratory Guide for Medical by John William Henry Eyre (1913)
"immunisation. The further study of the pathogenetic powers of any particular bacterium involves the active immunisation of one or more previously normal ..."

2. Immunity in Infective Diseases by Elie Metchnikoff (1907)
"Principal methods of immunisation.—immunisation by toxins and toxoids.—Inoculation against diphtheria toxin.—Phenomena produced in the course of vaccination ..."

3. Manual of Bacteriology by Robert Muir, James Ritchie (1907)
"Active immunisation against the Tubercle Bacillus.— Koch's Tuberculin-R. Our knowledge here centres round the substance introduced by Koch in 1897 under the ..."

4. Diphtheria and Its Associates by Lennox Browne (1895)
"Theory of immunisation.—To render an animal immune to the diphtheria toxine, it is held sufficient to accustom it slowly to the action of that toxine. ..."

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