premune
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English[edit]
Adjective[edit]
premune (not comparable)
- (medicine) Immune to a disease through having had it before.
- 1937, Annual Departmental Reports of the Straits Settlements..., page 894:
- […] take special precautions to protect the animals from those ordinary tropical protozoal diseases to which the indigenous cattle are premune.
- 1958, Great Britain. Colonial Office, Tanganyika Under United Kingdom Administration, page 145:
- This was an investigation of the smallest protective dose of chloroquine amongst the premune Bantu in Tanganyika.
- 2014, Julius P. Kreier, Malaria: Immunology and Immunization, page 141:
- It need not in fact be assumed that the premune state is implemented by immune mechanisms different from those induced by nonliving antigens.
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Verb[edit]
premune
- inflection of premunir: