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11immune — adj. 1 protected against a disease VERBS ▪ be, seem ▪ become ▪ remain, stay ▪ make sb ▪ …
12immune — /əˈmjun / (say uh myoohn), /ɪ / (say i ) adjective 1. protected from a disease or the like, as by inoculation. 2. unaffected by: immune to criticism; immune from competition. 3. exempt: immune from taxation. –noun 4. someone who is immune.… …
13immune — 01. Scientists do not yet understand why a small number of people seem to be [immune] to the AIDS virus. 02. Growing up in that country, the children developed a natural [immunity] to germs in the water that make visitors ill. 03. Hopefully,… …
14immune — /i myoohn /, adj. 1. protected from a disease or the like, as by inoculation. 2. of or pertaining to the production of antibodies or lymphocytes that can react with a specific antigen: immune reaction. 3. exempt or protected: immune from… …
15immune — adjective 1 someone who is immune to a particular disease cannot catch it 2 not affected by something such as criticism, bad treatment etc (+ to): They re always so rude that I ve almost become immune to it. 3 specially protected from something… …
16immune — im•mune [[t]ɪˈmyun[/t]] adj. 1) imu protected from a disease or the like, as by inoculation 2) imu of or pertaining to the production of antibodies or lymphocytes that can react with a specific antigen: immune reaction[/ex] 3) exempt; protected:… …
17immune — [ɪˈmjuːn] adj 1) safe from a disease, because you cannot be infected by it 2) relating to the body s IMMUNE SYSTEM 3) not influenced or affected by something Guy seemed totally immune to criticism.[/ex] 4) not affected by something such as a law …
18immune — 1. adjective /ɪˈmjuːn/ a) Exempt; not subject to As a diplomat, you are immune from prosecution. b) Protected by inoculation, or due to innate resistance to pathogens I am immune to chicken pox. 2. noun /ɪˈmjuːn/ A person who …
19Immune privilege — is a term used to describe certain sites in the body which are able to tolerate the introduction of antigen without eliciting an inflammatory immune response. Tissue grafts are normally recognised as foreign antigen by the body and attacked by… …
20Immune tolerance in pregnancy — or gestational/maternal immune tolerance is the absence of a maternal immune response against the fetus and placenta, which thus may be viewed as unusually successful allografts, since they genetically differ from the mother.[1] In the same way,… …
