| immune | (adjective) relating to the condition of immunity | - |
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| (adjective) secure against | - |
| (adjective) (usually followed by `to') not affected by a given influence | - |
| (adjective) relating to or conferring immunity (to disease or infection) | Synonyms: resistant |
| (noun) a person who is immune to a particular infection | - |
| immunisation | (noun) the act of making immune (especially by inoculation) | Synonyms: immunization |
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| immunise | (verb) perform vaccinations or produce immunity in by inoculation | Synonyms: immunize, inoculate, vaccinate |
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| (verb) grant immunity from prosecution | Synonyms: immunize |
| immunised | (adjective) having been rendered unsusceptible to a disease | Synonyms: immunized, vaccinated |
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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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| immunize | (verb) perform vaccinations or produce immunity in by inoculation | Synonyms: immunise, inoculate, vaccinate |
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| (verb) grant immunity from prosecution | Synonyms: immunise |
| immunized | (adjective) having been rendered unsusceptible to a disease | Synonyms: immunised, vaccinated |
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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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| immunochemical | (adjective) of or relating to immunochemistry | - |
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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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| immunocompetent | (adjective) capable of developing an immune response following exposure to an antigen | - |
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| immunocompromised | (adjective) unable to develop a normal immune response usually because of malnutrition or immunodeficiency or immunosuppressive therapy | - |
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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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| immunodeficient | (adjective) incapable of developing an immune response following exposure to an antigen | - |
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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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| immunogenic | (adjective) possessing the ability to elicit an immune response | - |
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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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| immunologic | (adjective) of or relating to immunology | Synonyms: immunological |
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| immunological | (adjective) of or relating to immunology | Synonyms: immunologic |
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| immunologically | (adverb) from the point of view of immunology | - |
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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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| immunosuppressed | (adjective) of persons whose immune response is inadequate | - |
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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 | (adjective) of or relating to a substance that lowers the body's normal immune response and induces immunosuppression | - |
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| (noun) a drug that lowers the body's normal immune response | Synonyms: immune suppressant drug, immunosuppressant, immunosuppressive drug, immunosuppressor |
| immunosuppressor | (noun) a drug that lowers the body's normal immune response | Synonyms: immune suppressant drug, immunosuppressant, immunosuppressive, immunosuppressive drug |
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| immunotherapeutic | (adjective) of or relating to immunotherapy | - |
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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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| immure | (verb) lock up or confine, in or as in a jail | Synonyms: gaol, imprison, incarcerate, jail, jug, lag, put away, put behind bars, remand |
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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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| immutable | (adjective) not subject or susceptible to change or variation in form or quality or nature | Synonyms: changeless |
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| (adjective) constant and unchanging | - |
| immutableness | (noun) the quality of being incapable of mutation | Synonyms: fixity, immutability |
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| immutably | (adverb) in an unalterable and unchangeable manner | Synonyms: unalterably, unassailably, unchangeably |
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