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IMMUNE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does immune mean?
• IMMUNE (noun)
The noun IMMUNE has 1 sense:
1. a person who is immune to a particular infection
Familiarity information: IMMUNE used as a noun is very rare.
• IMMUNE (adjective)
The adjective IMMUNE has 4 senses:
1. relating to the condition of immunity
2. secure against
3. relating to or conferring immunity (to disease or infection)
4. (usually followed by 'to') not affected by a given influence
Familiarity information: IMMUNE used as an adjective is uncommon.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A person who is immune to a particular infection
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("immune" is a kind of...):
individual; mortal; person; somebody; someone; soul (a human being)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "immune"):
carrier; immune carrier ((medicine) a person (or animal) who has some pathogen to which he is immune but who can pass it on to others)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Relating to the condition of immunity
Classified under:
Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Context example:
the immune system
Pertainym:
immunity (the state of not being susceptible)
Derivation:
immunity ((medicine) the condition in which an organism can resist disease)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Secure against
Context example:
immune from criminal prosecution
Similar:
exempt ((of persons) freed from or not subject to an obligation or liability (as e.g. taxes) to which others or other things are subject)
Derivation:
immunity (an act exempting someone)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Relating to or conferring immunity (to disease or infection)
Synonyms:
immune; resistant
Similar:
insusceptible; unsusceptible (not susceptible to)
Derivation:
immunity ((medicine) the condition in which an organism can resist disease)
Sense 4
Meaning:
(usually followed by 'to') not affected by a given influence
Context example:
immune to persuasion
Similar:
unaffected (undergoing no change when acted upon)
Derivation:
immunity (the quality of being unaffected by something)
Context examples
Tocilizumab, a drug that suppresses the immune system, reduced the severity and frequency of CRIA syndrome symptoms in five out of seven patients in some cases with life-changing effects.
(Researchers discover new autoinflammatory disease and uncover its biological cause, National Institutes of Health)
Immune system cells (leukocytes or white blood cells) accumulate in the tissues of the human body, for example, after suffering a trauma or a wound.
(Scientists make white blood cells to alleviate pain, instead of producing it, during tissue inflammation, University of Granada)
Pathogenesis is not well understood, but some types are thought to involve the immune system, with the complement system, in particular, being implicated.
(Membranoproliferative Glomerulonephritis, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)
In one experiment, researchers added vesicles to cultures of immune cells known as T lymphocytes and infected the cultures with HIV.
(Vesicles released by bacteria may reduce the spread of HIV in human tissue, National Institutes of Health)
A problem with your immune system usually causes Addison disease.
(Addison Disease, NIH: National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases)
They also found that this inhibits another key molecule in parasite control, NLRP3, allowing LRV to "bypass" our immune system.
(Study uncovers cause of aggressive leishmaniasis strain, SciDev.Net)
In type I diabetes, the beta cells, which are the only cells in the body that produce insulin, are destroyed by the immune system resulting in complete lack of the hormone.
(Researchers Develop Insulin-Producing Cells Activated by Light for Diabetes, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
Vitamin A is essential for diverse cellular functions, immune system functions, and maintenance of mucous membranes, while vitamin D regulates calcium and phosphorous metabolism.
(A and D Ointment, NCI Thesaurus)
A preparation of cells, which consists of autologous marrow infiltrating lymphocytes (MILs), that are manipulated in vitro, with potential antitumor and immune stimulating activities.
(Activated Marrow Infiltrating Lymphocytes, NCI Thesaurus)
As for me, I am immune.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
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