immunodeficientadj.

1971 Lancet 22 May 1039/1 Because the leucopenic, immunodeficient patient may succumb to infectious by endogenous organisms,..it can be argued that isolation is only of marginal value.

1989 Microbial Pathogenesis 7 321 Antibodies produced in these immunodeficient individuals may be directed against epitopes which are not involved in virus neutralization.

1994 D. Rushkoff Cyberia v. xviii. 226 The term ‘virus’ itself is a sort of metamedia virus, depicting society as an immunodeficient host organism vulnerable to attack from ‘better’ thoughts and messages.

2000 New Yorker 31 July 50/2 A ‘bubble boy’, like those immunodeficient kids who are a staple of People and made-for-TV movies.