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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
immune
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
immune system
▪ My immune system is not as strong as it ought to be.
sb’s immune system (=they system which keeps your body healthy)
▪ Some drugs can damage the immune system.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
cell
▪ Professor Murray believes the root of the problem lies in a fault with the child's immune cells in the brain.
▪ When triggered, the alarm seems to call in squads of immune cells that surround tuberculosis bacteria and keep them from spreading.
▪ Since receiving the baboon marrow, Getty has had moderate increases in his immune cell numbers, Deeks said.
▪ Among the discoveries made in psychoneuroimmunology is that stressful events can make the immune cells far less responsive to infection.
▪ The children now have normal immune cell counts and live at home, without treatment.
▪ Conversely, mediators produced by immune cells can influence nerve cells - histamine and prostaglandins both have this effect.
deficiency
▪ Cryptosporidium is a cause of chronic diarrhoea and a proximal small intestinal mucosal enteropathy in children without immune deficiency.
reaction
▪ Their resistance developed too rapidly and disappeared long before ordinary immune reactions could appear.
▪ Many patients have a strong family history of allergies, which are genetic and involve excessive immune reaction.
▪ Its cause is unknown, although it may be linked to a very long-delayed immune reaction to a virus infection years previously.
response
▪ It is known which specific immune responses are required for therapeutic benefit, so we have proceeded cautiously.
▪ Because histoplasmosis can mount an immune response, skin tests are often done.
▪ Discussion Coeliac disease probably represents an aberrant immune response by antigen specific T cells of the small intestine to certain cereal peptides.
▪ Hence the delay between the onset of flu and the immune response that cures it.
▪ Although H pylori does not invade the mucosa, bacterial proteins may activate monocytes with a local T-cell mediated immune response.
▪ This immune response leads to the destruction of the beta cells that make insulin.
▪ It is possible, however, that synthetic chemicals might affect the immune response in some way.
system
▪ The site of the original interaction between antigen and the immune system presumably determines the distribution of the granulomatous inflammation seen.
▪ People with normal, healthy immune systems generally can fight off enterococcus without drugs, and might not even feel sick.
▪ All allergies are inappropriate responses by the body's immune system to a substance which is not normally harmful.
▪ Qigong is said to improve the immune system and restore physical energy.
▪ For instance, one medication, derived from bitter almonds, claims to boost the immune system.
▪ Now they know a two-pronged approach is needed: blocking the virus and rebuilding the damaged immune system.
▪ Carly suffers from an immune system deficiency which killed her 14-month-old brother Greig four days before she was born.
▪ The third is an immune system, used only by the descendants of reptiles.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ As intriguing as these results are, much remains unclear about the impact of low doses of alcohol on the immune sys-tem.
▪ Continually feeling bad about how your body looks limits your self-esteem, which eventually undercuts your immune power.
▪ From that fate no trader was immune.
▪ I thought hard about my actual immune system and the white cells of which it is largely composed.
▪ Their immune systems are so damaged that colds and bugs which normally take a few days to clear can take weeks or months.
▪ These cells form part of the immune system and help to prevent the body from getting diseases.
▪ Thus, there is some suggestion of variation in the immune response within Crohn's disease.
▪ What happens to your body then is that feelings of helplessness and hopelessness soon translate into depressed immune function.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Immune

Immune \Im*mune"\, a. [L. immunis. See Immunity.]

  1. Exempt; protected. -- Im*mu"nize, v. t.

  2. (Med.) Protected from disease due to the action of the immune system, especially by having been inoculated against or previously exposed to a disease.

  3. (Med.) Of or pertaining to the immune system or the components of the immune system.

  4. Not responsive; as, immune to suggestion.

Immune

Immune \Im*mune"\, n. One who is immune; esp., a person who is immune from a disease by reason of previous affection with the disease or inoculation.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
immune

mid-15c., "free; exempt," back-formation from immunity. Latin immunis meant "exempt from public service, free from taxes." Specific modern medical sense of "exempt from a disease" (typically because of inoculation) is from 1881. Immune system attested by 1917.

Wiktionary
immune

  1. 1 (context usually with "from" English) exempt; not subject to. 2 (context medicine usually with "to" English) protected by inoculation, or due to innate resistance to pathogens. 3 (context by extension English) Not vulnerable. 4 (context medicine English) Of or pertaining to the immune system. n. (context epidemiology English) A person who is not susceptible to infection by a particular disease v

  2. (cx rare transitive English) To make immune.

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WordNet
immune

  1. adj. relating to the condition of immunity; "the immune system"

  2. secure against; "immune from taxation as long as he resided in Bermuda"; "immune from criminal prosecution"

  3. relating to or conferring immunity (to disease or infection) [syn: resistant]

  4. (usually followed by `to') not affected by a given influence; "immune to persuasion"

immune

n. a person who is immune to a particular infection

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Wikipedia
Immune (song)

Immune (song) may refer to:

  • "Immune", song by the American music group Tinfed
  • "Immune", 1999 song by the American indie rock group Low
Immune (album)

Immune is the third studio album by Soul Embraced, released on February 25, 2003.

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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.