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Definition of Immunosuppressed

1. Adjective. Of persons whose immune response is inadequate.

Definition of Immunosuppressed

1. Adjective. Affected by immunosuppression ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Medical Definition of Immunosuppressed

1. Condition of having a lowered resistance to disease. May be a temporary result of lowered white blood cells from chemotherapy administration. (09 Oct 1997)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Immunosuppressed

Literary usage of Immunosuppressed

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

1. Health Information for International Travel edited by Rosamond R. Dewart (1999)
"For this reason, patients who are severely immunosuppressed for any reason ... Healthy susceptible close contacts of severely immunosuppressed persons may ..."

2. Manual of Microbiologic Monitoring of Laboratory Animals edited by Kim Waggie (1994)
"The cysts are shed in the feces, and young or immunosuppressed animals shed greater ... High mortality and morbidity in inbred, weanling, immunosuppressed, ..."

3. Controlling Tb in Correctional Facilities by DIANE Publishing Company (1998)
"In severely immunosuppressed persons with pulmonary TB, ... In rare cases, the radiograph of a severely immunosuppressed person with pulmonary TB disease ..."

4. Enforcement Procedures And Scheduling For Occupational Exposure To Tuberculosisby DIANE Publishing Company by DIANE Publishing Company (1996)
"All HCWs should be informed that immunosuppressed HCWs should have appropriate follow-up and screening for infectious diseases, including TB, ..."

5. Health Information for International Travel by DIANE Publishing Company (1996)
"There are no anecdotal reports or systematically collected data, however, linking an immunosuppressed state with adverse events in a yellow fever vaccine ..."

6. Xenotransplantation: International Policy Issues by Elettra Ronchi, N.Y) New York Academy of Sciences (Ne, New York Academy of Sciences, OECD (1999)
"In addition, some patients, such as those undergoing bone marrow transplantation or small bowel transplantation, are more severely immunosuppressed because ..."

7. Presidential Advisory Committee on Gulf War Veterans' Illnesses: Final Report edited by Joyce C Laslof, Marguerite Knox, John D Baldeschwieler (1997)
"... a risk of activation of latent infections in immunosuppressed persons.65'90'146 To date, DOD and VA report that delayed onset of VL has not occurred. ..."

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