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Definition of Immunise

1. Verb. Law: grant immunity from prosecution.

2. Verb. Perform vaccinations or produce immunity in by inoculation. "The nurse vaccinated the children in the school"

Definition of Immunise

1. Verb. (alternative spelling of immunize) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Immunise

1. to immunize [v -NISED, -NISING, -NISES] - See also: immunize

Medical Definition of Immunise

1. To render immune. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Immunise

immune serum immune serum globulin immune suppressant drug immune suppression immune surveillance immune system immune systems immune thrombocytopenia immune thrombocytopenic purpura immune tolerance

immunes immunifacient immunisation immunisation therapy immunisations immunise (current term) immunised immunises immunising immunities

immunity immunity deficiency immunizable immunization immunization program immunization schedule immunizations immunize immunized immunizer

Literary usage of Immunise

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Lancet (1898)
"Others have found that a serum which protected well against the streptococcus used to immunise the *riin«l which supplied it would not protect against other ..."

2. The Medical and Surgical Reporter (1893)
"... against "cholera" by various methods, and their serum used to immunise other guinea- pigs ... method will readily immunise another guinea-pig against ..."

3. The Diseases of Infancy and Childhood: For the Use of Students and by Luther Emmett Holt, John Howland (1911)
"One need not hesitate to immunise persons of any age and in almost every .condition, even newly-born infants and pregnant women. The dose for immunisation ..."

4. The Journal of Comparative Pathology and Therapeutics (1904)
"After determining that it was possible to immunise animals against high doses of virus by means of preliminary inoculation with various combinations of ..."

5. Transactions of the Pathological Society of London by Pathological Society of London (1895)
"The chief point he insisted upon was that because serum will immunise against an organism, it does not prove that the organism is the cause of the disease. ..."

6. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1903)
"... dose of this poison, and a slightly larger dose proved fatal with the usual symptoms. My intention was to immunise a series of animals against the ..."

7. The Practitioner by Gale Group, ProQuest Information and Learning Company (1899)
"One's object, then, is to immunise the important centres in the medulla, since, if these have been affected, no remedy is of any use, and to prevent any ..."

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