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Definition of Immunize
1. Verb. Law: grant immunity from prosecution.
2. Verb. Perform vaccinations or produce immunity in by inoculation. "The nurse vaccinated the children in the school"
Category relationships: Medicine, Practice Of Medicine
Generic synonyms: Inject, Shoot
Derivative terms: Immunization, Inoculant, Inoculating, Inoculation, Inoculator, Vaccinating, Vaccination, Vaccination, Vaccinator, Vaccine
Definition of Immunize
1. Verb. (transitive) To make someone or something immune to something. ¹
2. Verb. (transitive) To inoculate someone, as thus produce immunity from a disease. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Immunize
1. to protect from a disease [v -NIZED, -NIZING, -NIZES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Immunize
Literary usage of Immunize
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Pediatrics (1902)
"... and that the terms antitoxin and curative serum were not proper ones; that
the action of antitoxin was to immunize the tissues unaffected. ..."
2. A Practical Text-book of Infection, Immunity, and Specific Therapy: With by John Albert Kolmer (1915)
"immunize a rabbit with sterile horse serum by intravenous injections after the
first method as described on page 70; immunize a second rabbit after the ..."
3. The Philippine Journal of Science by Philippines Bureau of Science (1907)
"Guinea pigs were much more difficult to immunize, and they rarely succeeded ...
However, with this same amount they were not able to immunize gray monkeys ..."
4. Autotherapy by Charles H. Duncan (1918)
"When we immunize the mother to the microorganisms, pathogenically active in the
child, there are developed in the mother antibodies specific to all of the ..."
5. Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association by American Veterinary Medical Association. (1916)
"Do not purchase pigs from large piggeries which do not immunize their swine. ...
Some there are who boast of the fact that they do not need to immunize ..."
6. The Treatment of Hay Fever by Rosin-weed, Ichthyol and Faradic Electricity by George Frederick Laidlaw (1917)
"Because we can immunize successfully against one disease, it does not follow that
the same methods will immunize against another disease. ..."
7. Proceedings of the second Pan American scientific congress: Washington, U. S by Glen Levin Swiggett (1917)
"In both cases, however, the cells must be derived from the species of animal
which it is desired to immunize. The most potent material ie embryo skin, ..."
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