| Library / English Dictionary |
IMMUNITY
| Pronunciation (US): |  | (GB): | |
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An act exempting someone
Example:
he was granted immunity from prosecution
Synonyms:
exemption; granting immunity; immunity
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("immunity" is a kind of...):
discharge; release; waiver (a formal written statement of relinquishment)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "immunity"):
fix (an exemption granted after influence (e.g., money) is brought to bear)
official immunity (personal immunity accorded to a public official from liability to anyone injured by actions that are the consequence of exerting official authority)
sovereign immunity (an exemption that precludes bringing a suit against the sovereign government without the government's consent)
testimonial immunity; use immunity (an exemption that displaces the privilege against self-incrimination; neither compelled testimony or any fruits of it can be used against the witness who therefore can no longer fear self-incrimination)
Derivation:
immune (secure against)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The quality of being unaffected by something
Example:
immunity to criticism
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("immunity" is a kind of...):
invulnerability (the property of being invulnerable; the property of being incapable of being hurt (physically or emotionally))
Derivation:
immune ((usually followed by 'to') not affected by a given influence)
Sense 3
Meaning:
The state of not being susceptible
Example:
unsusceptibility to rust
Synonyms:
immunity; unsusceptibility
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("immunity" is a kind of...):
condition; status (a state at a particular time)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "immunity"):
exemption; freedom (immunity from an obligation or duty)
Sense 4
Meaning:
(medicine) the condition in which an organism can resist disease
Synonyms:
immunity; resistance
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("immunity" is a kind of...):
condition; status (a state at a particular time)
Domain category:
medical specialty; medicine (the branches of medical science that deal with nonsurgical techniques)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "immunity"):
immunogenicity (the property of eliciting an immune response)
acquired immunity (immunity to a particular disease that is not innate but has been acquired during life; immunity can be acquired by the development of antibodies after an attack of an infectious disease or by a pregnant mother passing antibodies through the placenta to a fetus or by vaccination)
innate immunity; natural immunity (immunity to disease that occurs as part of an individual's natural biologic makeup)
Derivation:
immune (relating to or conferring immunity (to disease or infection))
immune (relating to the condition of immunity)
Context examples:
Complex pharmaceutical substances, preparations, or agents of organic origin, usually obtained by biological methods or assay, that depend for their action on the processes affecting immunity.
(Biological agent, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)
This gene plays a role in humoral immunity to breast cancer.
(CALML4 Gene, NCI Thesaurus)
The natural or acquired ability of an organism to maintain its immunity to or to resist the effects of a cancer causing agent.
(Carcinogen Resistance, NCI Thesaurus)
This protein plays a role in proteolysis, apoptosis induction and immunity.
(Caspase-10, NCI Thesaurus)
This protein is involved in proteolysis and immunity.
(Caspase-1, NCI Thesaurus)
A thymocyte-derived lymphocyte of immunological importance that is long-lived (months to years) and is responsible for cell-mediated immunity.
(Murine T-Lymphocytes, NCI Thesaurus)
But they can still harm people, especially people with other problems that affect their immunity, such as AIDS.
(Mycobacterial Infections, NIH)
This allele, which encodes programmed cell death protein 1, plays a role in the modulation of both apoptosis and cellular immunity.
(PDCD1 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)
Use of antibodies or primed lymphocytes from an immune donor to produce immunity against an antigenic substance or organism in a nonimmune host.
(Passive Immunization, NIH CRISP Thesaurus)
Upon subcutaneous administration, pegylated recombinant human interleukin-10 AM0010 may activate cell-mediated immunity against cancer cells by stimulating the differentiation and expansion of tumor specific cytotoxic CD8+ T cells.
(Pegylated Recombinant Human Interleukin-10 AM0010, NCI Thesaurus)
