to become immune
1immune — is followed by to or from. When the reference is to disease or some other form of harm or danger, to is more usual, and when from is used it is more often in the context of legal liabilities, but these distinctions are far from clear cut and both …
2immune — [[t]ɪmju͟ːn[/t]] ♦♦♦ 1) ADJ: v link ADJ, usu ADJ to n If you are immune to a particular disease, you cannot be affected by it. This blood test will show whether or not you re immune to the disease... Most adults are immune to Rubella. Derived… …
3immune — 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… …
4Immune 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… …
5Immune tolerance — or immunological tolerance is the process by which the immune system does not attack an antigen.[1] It can be either natural or self tolerance , in which the body does not mount an immune response to self antigens, or induced tolerance , in which …
6immune system — Anat. a diffuse, complex network of interacting cells, cell products, and cell forming tissues that protects the body from pathogens and other foreign substances, destroys infected and malignant cells, and removes cellular debris: the system… …
7immune system disorder — Introduction Disorders of the immune systemany of various failures in the body s defense mechanisms against infectious organisms (see table (Disorders of the immune system)). Disorders of immunity include immune deficiency diseases, such… …
8Immune system — A scanning electron microscope image of a single neutrophil (yellow), engulfing anthrax bacteria (orange). An immune system is a system of biological structures and processes within an organism that protects against disease by identifying and… …
9immune — adj. 1 protected against a disease VERBS ▪ be, seem ▪ become ▪ remain, stay ▪ make sb ▪ …
10immune surveillance — immunological surveillance a hypothesized monitoring function by which the immune system protects against cancer; according to the theory, tumor cells constantly arise throughout life by malignant transformation of normal cells but almost all are …
