premune

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English

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Adjective

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premune (not comparable)

  1. (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

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premune

  1. inflection of premunir:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative