Definition of Immunotherapeutic

1. Adjective. Of or relating to immunotherapy. "Various immunotherapeutic techniques have been employed with AIDS patients"

Partainyms: Immunotherapy

Definition of Immunotherapeutic

1. Adjective. (immunology medicine) Describing a drug or medicine that acts on the immune system to treat disease, i.e. something used in immunotherapy. ¹

2. Noun. Such a drug ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Medical Definition of Immunotherapeutic

1. A therapeutic approach to treat disease by stimulating or enhancing the bodys immune response against the disease. (16 Dec 1997)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Immunotherapeutic

immunosuppressed
immunosuppression
immunosuppressive
immunosuppressive agent
immunosuppressive agents
immunosuppressive drug
immunosuppressive drugs
immunosuppressives
immunosuppressor
immunosuppressors
immunosupression
immunosurveillance
immunosympathectomy
immunosystem
immunosystems
immunotherapeutic (current term)
immunotherapeutics
immunotherapies
immunotherapy
immunotolerance
immunotolerant
immunotoxic
immunotoxicity
immunotoxicologist
immunotoxicologists
immunotoxicology
immunotoxin
immunotoxins
immunotransfusion
immunotronics

Literary usage of Immunotherapeutic

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

1. Meeting the Challenge: U. S. Industry Faces the 21st Century: The U. S by Jon Paugh (1998)
"... Pharmaceutical Corporation is developing an immunotherapeutic vaccine; Sequana is searching for the genetic causes of asthma in population groups ..."

2. International Medical and Surgical Surveyby American Institute of Medicine by American Institute of Medicine (1922)
"All therapy has therefore a biologic basis, or is, in respect to its purpose, biologic or immunotherapeutic. Biologic therapy may be grouped in 3 groups: ..."

3. Mineral Requirements for Military Personnel: Levels Needed for Cognitive And by Food and Nutrition Board, Committee on Military Nutrition Research, National Academy of Sciences (U.S.) (2006)
"... disease caused by these pathogens; (10) KLH is clinically relevant because it is used as a immunotherapeutic in the treatment of cancer (Gilewski, 1996; ..."

4. Ensuring an Infectious Disease Workforce: Education and Training Needs for by Stacey Knobler (2006)
"The Basis for HIV immunotherapeutic Vaccines. Vaccine 20:688-705. Pialoux G, Excler JL, Riviere Y, Gonzalez-Canali G, Feuillie V, Coulaud P, Gluckman JC, ..."

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