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Definition of Immune

1. Adjective. Relating to the condition of immunity. "The immune system"

2. Noun. A person who is immune to a particular infection.

3. Adjective. Secure against. "Immune from criminal prosecution"

4. Adjective. Relating to or conferring immunity (to disease or infection).

5. Adjective. (usually followed by 'to') not affected by a given influence. "Immune to persuasion"

Definition of Immune

1. a. Exempt; protected by inoculation.

2. n. One who is immune; esp., a person who is immune from a disease by reason of previous affection with the disease or inoculation.

Definition of Immune

1. Adjective. (context: usually with "from") Exempt; not subject to ¹

2. Adjective. (medicine usually with "to") Protected by inoculation, or due to innate resistance to pathogens ¹

3. Adjective. (by extension) Not vulnerable ¹

4. Adjective. (medicine) Of or pertaining to the immune system ¹

5. Noun. (epidemiology) A person who is not susceptible to infection by a particular disease ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Immune

1. one who is protected from a disease [n -S]

Medical Definition of Immune

1. Protected against, infectious disease by either specific or non-specific mechanisms. Origin: L. Immunis = free, exempt This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Immune

immovabilities immovability immovable immovable bandage immovable joint immovableness immovablenesses immovables immovably immoveable

immoved immozymase immund immundicities immundicity immune (current term) immune-response gene immune adherence immune adherence phenomenon immune adherence reaction

immune adhesion test immune adsorption immune agglutination immune agglutinin immune carrier immune complex immune complex disease immune complex diseases immune complex disorder

Literary usage of Immune

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

1. The Practitioner by Gale Group, ProQuest Information and Learning Company (1900)
"measure only the immune body saturated with complement. In actual practice Von Dungern used inactivated immune serum in such a quantity that the immune body ..."

2. Edinburgh Medical Journal (1906)
"B. With regard to anti-immune boilies, those studied by ... (1) The anti-immune body obtained by injecting the normal serum of the rabbit was shown ..."

3. Collected Studies on Immunity by Paul Ehrlich (1906)
"ceptors for the immune body of the spermatozoa immune serum are present not only in the organs of generation but also in other cells of the rabbit. ..."

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