Resistant to disease

Usage examples of immune.

This protein is an agglutinogen that alerts the immune system to produce antibodies against disease.

The amebocytes of starfish were recently found to contain a material that immobilizes the macrophages of mammals, resembling a product of immune lymphocytes in higher forms.

X himself devoted his valuable time to rooting through the debris of the New Atlantan immune system proved this.

Although Paul Castellano had run the most powerful Cosa Nostra family in the nation for seven years, since 1976 he had remained practically unknown to the public at large and seemingly immune to prosecution.

I be immune to the hottest jade rumors since Chiang Kai-shek creamed mainland Chinas treasures on the way to Taiwan?

I used once to believe that a certain feeling for beauty would serve me in place of virtue, and would render me immune from solicitations of the coarsest kind.

Where Imuran was a frontal assault, a wholesale destruction of the entire immune system, cyclosporine was a back-door assassin, allowing a targeted suppression of the T cells.

Then there were the familiar hazards of zero gravity: bone decalcification, immune and cardiovascular system degradation, muscular atrophy.

According to one view, a hole is poked in the receptor membrane, launching depolarization, but other workers believe that the substance may become bound to the cells possessing specific receptors for it and then may just sit there, somehow displaying its signal from a distance, after the fashion of antigens on immune cells.

I possess all the secondary sex characteristics of a normal man except one: my inability to synthesize dihydrotestosterone has made me immune to baldness.

Elite skin had to be somewhat permeable, and a heavy douse of fadeaway would put one down for several minutes while the Elite immune system dealt with the drug.

Was Bennett really immune to fads or just fashion-impaired, as Flip had said?

With AIDS, you get HIV-Human Immunodeficiency Virus-and then maybe a few years later, it blossoms into full-blown Advanced Immune Deficiency Syndrome, putting the sufferer at risk for contracting fatal cancers or flus.

Antiretroviral drugs to control HIV and antimicrobials to control secondary infections can prolong life, but eventually the immune system becomes so damaged that patients are considered immunodeficient and death usually follows in a few years.

But try to find me a Jansenist, some friend of Father Pirard, immune to plots and scheming.