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Definition of Immunologic response
1. Noun. 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.
Generic synonyms: Reaction, Response
Specialized synonyms: Anamnestic Reaction, Anamnestic Response, Humoral Immune Response, Cell-mediated Immune Response, Complement Fixation
Category relationships: Bacteria, Bacterium, Fungus
Terms within: Complement
Lexicographical Neighbors of Immunologic Response
Literary usage of Immunologic response
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine (1903)
"1, sham thymectomized animals initially highly susceptible to challenge Ib cells
but their immunologic response was regained within 4 weeks after seru: ..."
2. The Oxford Medicine by Henry Asbury Christian, James Mackenzie (1920)
"... the greater ease of adhesion of bacteria to the irregular surfaces of the
deformed cusps and the altered immunologic response of the damaged valves. ..."
3. Health Information for International Travel edited by Rosamond R. Dewart (1999)
"... 5 mL of commercially available immune globulin revealed no alteration of the
immunologic response to yellow fever vaccine when compared with controls. ..."
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