immunizeverb [ T ]
UK usually immunise uk/ˈɪm.jə.naɪz/us/ˈɪm.jə.naɪz/specialized medical to protect a person or animal against a disease by putting a substance into the body to make it produce antibodies (= proteins in the blood that fight disease):
Children are routinely immunized against polio.
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Immunology & vaccination
- active immunity
- antibody
- antigen
- antivaxxer
- autoimmune
- gamma globulin
- immune
- immune response
- immune system
- immunity
- immunization
- immunodeficiency
- immunosuppression
- inoculate
- interferon
- lymph
- T cell
- tolerance
- vaccine
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