What does immune mean?
Definitions for immune
ɪˈmyunim·mune
Here are all the possible meanings and translations of the word immune.
Princeton's WordNet
immuneadjective
a person who is immune to a particular infection
immuneadjective
relating to the condition of immunity
"the immune system"
immuneadjective
secure against
"immune from taxation as long as he resided in Bermuda"; "immune from criminal prosecution"
immune, resistantadjective
relating to or conferring immunity (to disease or infection)
immuneadjective
(usually followed by `to') not affected by a given influence
"immune to persuasion"
GCIDE
Immuneadjective
(Med.) Protected from disease due to the action of the immune system, especially by having been inoculated against or previously exposed to a disease.
Immuneadjective
(Med.) Of or pertaining to the immune system or the components of the immune system.
Immuneadjective
Not responsive; as, immune to suggestion.
Wiktionary
immunenoun
A person who is not susceptible to infection by a particular disease
immuneadjective
Exempt; not subject to
As a diplomat, you are immune from prosecution.
immuneadjective
Protected by inoculation, or due to innate resistance to pathogens
I am immune to chicken pox.
immuneadjective
Not vulnerable
Alas, she was immune to my charms.
immuneadjective
Of or pertaining to the immune system
We examined the patient's immune response.
Etymology: From immunis, from in- + munus
Webster Dictionary
Immuneadjective
exempt; protected by inoculation
Etymology: [L. immunis. See Immunity.]
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Immune
im-mūn′, adj. free from obligation: not liable to infection.—n. Immun′ity, state of being immune: exemption: privilege. [Fr.,—L. in, not, munis, serving, obliging.]
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of immune in Chaldean Numerology is: 7
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of immune in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3
Examples of immune in a Sentence
And that was really the story of the pandemic in 1918 -- the flu pandemic. We had a U-shaped curve. It was the young and the old dying for different reasons, but the reason the young died was because they had a vigorous immune response -- the so-called cytokine storm, where your body makes immunological proteins that actually cause harm.
These children with an older sibling are more likely to get their immune exposures elsewhere, and it seems like solid foods are less important.
HIV adaptation to the most effective immune responses we can make against it comes at a significant cost to its ability to replicate, anything we can do to increase the pressure on HIV in this way may allow scientists to reduce the destructive power of HIV over time.
Many variants are coming, and Omicron was the first one that was able to evade -- in a skillful way -- the immune protection that we're giving.
That will give you a pretty good idea as to what the level of immune evasion is. That process will take likely two weeks or more, perhaps even sooner, depending upon how well the virus grows in the isolates that we get, and in those countries in which there are a lot of cases like South Africa, the computational biologists and the evolutionary biologists are going to be getting a good feel as to what the competition of this virus would be with Delta. Those are just a few of the things that will take a couple of weeks to a few weeks to learn.
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- حصينArabic
- immuneCatalan, Valencian
- imunní, imunitníCzech
- immunGerman
- imunaEsperanto
- inmunológico, inmuneSpanish
- immuuni, koskematon, immunologinen, vastustuskykyinenFinnish
- immun, immunologiqueFrench
- imdhíonachta, imdhíonachIrish
- प्रतिरक्षाHindi
- immúnisHungarian
- imunIndonesian
- immunològico, immuneItalian
- 免疫のJapanese
- immunisLatin
- imunMalay
- immunNorwegian
- isento, imune, imunológicoPortuguese
- иммунныйRussian
- immunSwedish
- ภูมิคุ้มกันThai
- مدافعتیUrdu
- 免疫的Chinese
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