Immunology

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The branch of medicine that concerns the body's immune system. uncountable, usually

    "Obviously, licentiates to practice medicine should receive instruction of a definite and practical nature in this important branch of modern medicine, or immunology should receive a place in the classification of specialties, a fact which the importance of the subject may command."

  2. 2
    the branch of medical science that studies the body's immune system wordnet

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immunityimmunizationmedicine

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"Kartik Chandran, a professor in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in Bronx, New York, helped identify the antibodies, which were described online in the journal Cell. He is optimistic that the antibodies can be used as a single therapy to treat all Ebola viruses."

Etymology

From immune + -ology.

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immune system

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