| immune | (noun) a person who is immune to a particular infection | - |
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| immunisation | (noun) the act of making immune (especially by inoculation) | Synonyms: immunization |
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| immunity | (noun) an act exempting someone | Synonyms: exemption, granting immunity |
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| (noun) the quality of being unaffected by something | - |
| (noun) the state of not being susceptible | Synonyms: unsusceptibility |
| (noun) (medicine) the condition in which an organism can resist disease | Synonyms: resistance |
| immunization | (noun) the act of making immune (especially by inoculation) | Synonyms: immunisation |
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| immunoassay | (noun) identification of a substance (especially a protein) by its action as an antigen | Synonyms: immunochemical assay |
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| immunochemistry | (noun) the field of chemistry concerned with chemical processes in immunology (such as chemical studies of antigens and antibodies) | Synonyms: chemoimmunology |
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| immunocompetence | (noun) the ability to develop an immune response following exposure to an antigen | - |
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| immunodeficiency | (noun) immunological disorder in which some part of the body's immune system is inadequate and resistance to infectious diseases is reduced | - |
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| immunoelectrophoresis | (noun) electrophoresis to separate antigens and antibodies | - |
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| immunofluorescence | (noun) (immunology) a technique that uses antibodies linked to a fluorescent dye in order to study antigens in a sample of tissue | - |
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| immunogen | (noun) any substance or organism that provokes an immune response (produces immunity) when introduced into the body | Synonyms: immunizing agent |
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| immunogenicity | (noun) the property of eliciting an immune response | - |
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| immunoglobulin | (noun) a class of proteins produced in lymph tissue in vertebrates and that function as antibodies in the immune response | Synonyms: Ig, immune gamma globulin, immune globulin, immune serum globulin |
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| immunohistochemistry | (noun) an assay that shows specific antigens in tissues by the use of markers that are either fluorescent dyes or enzymes (such as horseradish peroxidase) | - |
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| immunologist | (noun) a medical scientist who specializes in immunology | - |
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| immunology | (noun) the branch of medical science that studies the body's immune system | - |
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| immunopathology | (noun) the branch of immunology that deals with pathologies of the immune system | - |
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| immunosuppressant | (noun) a drug that lowers the body's normal immune response | Synonyms: immune suppressant drug, immunosuppressive, immunosuppressive drug, immunosuppressor |
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| immunosuppression | (noun) lowering the body's normal immune response to invasion by foreign substances; can be deliberate (as in lowering the immune response to prevent rejection of a transplanted organ) or incidental (as a side effect of radiotherapy or chemotherapy for cancer) | - |
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| immunosuppressive | (noun) a drug that lowers the body's normal immune response | Synonyms: immune suppressant drug, immunosuppressant, immunosuppressive drug, immunosuppressor |
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| immunosuppressor | (noun) a drug that lowers the body's normal immune response | Synonyms: immune suppressant drug, immunosuppressant, immunosuppressive, immunosuppressive drug |
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| immunotherapy | (noun) therapy designed to produce immunity to a disease or to enhance resistance by the immune system | - |
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| immurement | (noun) the state of being imprisoned | Synonyms: captivity, imprisonment, incarceration |
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| immutability | (noun) the quality of being incapable of mutation | Synonyms: fixity, immutableness |
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| immutableness | (noun) the quality of being incapable of mutation | Synonyms: fixity, immutability |
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