| 释义 |
immunize, v.|ˈɪmjuːnaɪz|
[f. immune + -ize.]
1. trans. To render immune from or insusceptible to poison, or infection.
1892in Brit. Med. Jrnl. 20 Feb. 379-80 (transl. fr. German) Emmerick succeeded in protecting animals by inoculating them with the tissue juices of immunised animals. 1894Westm. Gaz. 21 Aug. 2/3 Experience in the new methods of immunising. 1894Lancet 3 Nov. 1065 The immunising power of the serum. 1894Sat. Rev. 17 Nov. 529 In 1891..Professor Hankin pointed out that the injection of the serum of animals..immunized by repeated inoculations, had a preventive or curative effect by destroying or neutralizing in the blood the products of disease-producing microbes. 1895Pop. Sci. Monthly Feb. 515 Prof. Carl Fraenkel first immunized guinea-pigs against diphtheria.
2. intr. Of an organism or substance, regarded as an antigen: to produce immunity in an individual into which it is introduced.
1942Jrnl. Bacteriol. XLIII. 405 Strains we have classified as weakly antigenic (in so far as they fail to immunize significantly against homologous virus injected intra⁓cerebrally). 1951Whitby & Hynes Med. Bacteriol. (ed. 5) viii. 108 It is possible to kill bacteria without so altering their antigenic structure that they no longer immunize against living bacteria. 1973Nature 30 Mar. 330/1 The ability of lactating mammary gland to immunize against D1 and D2 mammary tumour growth. |