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  • 41Immune Attack — Infobox VG title=Immune Attack caption= developer = Federation of American Scientists, Escape Hatch Entertainment publisher = Federation of American Scientists designer = University of Southern California, Brown University engine = released = May …

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  • 42Immune tolerance — A state of unresponsiveness to a specific antigen (immune stimulus) or group of antigens to which a person is normally responsive. Immune tolerance can result from a number of causes, including: {{}}Prior contact with the same antigen in fetal… …

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  • 43immune globulin — noun a class of proteins produced in lymph tissue in vertebrates and that function as antibodies in the immune response • Syn: ↑immunoglobulin, ↑Ig, ↑immune serum globulin, ↑immune gamma globulin • Hypernyms: ↑gamma globulin, ↑human gamma… …

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  • 44immune tolerance — Tolerance Tol er*ance, n. [L. tolerantia: cf. F. tol[ e]rance.] 1. The power or capacity of enduring; the act of enduring; endurance. [1913 Webster] Diogenes, one frosty morning, came into the market place, shaking, to show his tolerance. Bacon.… …

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  • 45Immune disorder — ICD9|279 ICDO = OMIM = MedlinePlus = eMedicineSubj = eMedicineTopic = MeshID = D007154 An immune disorder is a dysfunction of the immune system. These disorders can be characterized in several different ways: * By the component(s) of the immune… …

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  • 46immune — adjective 1》 resistant to a particular infection owing to the presence of specific antibodies or sensitized white blood cells.     ↘Biology relating to such resistance: the immune system. 2》 exempt from an obligation or penalty. 3》 (often immune… …

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  • 47immune — adj. 1 a (often foll. by against, from, to) protected against an infection owing to the presence of specific antibodies, or through inoculation or inherited or acquired resistance. b relating to immunity (immune mechanism). 2 (foll. by from, to)… …

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  • 48immune serum — noun : antiserum * * * a serum containing naturally or artificially produced antibodies to a given antigen, obtained from human or animal sources. [1900 05] * * * immune serum, a serum in which antibodies to a particular disease are present,… …

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  • 49immune — adjective they are immune to hepatitis B this company seems to be immune to fluctuations in the economy Syn: resistant to, not subject to, not liable to, unsusceptible to, not vulnerable to; protected from, safe from, secure against, not in… …

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  • 50immune — [15] The mune of immune is the same as that of remunerate and of commune (and hence of common). It represents Latin mūnis ‘ready to give service’. The addition of the negative prefix in gave immūnis, which in classical Latin denoted literally… …

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