premune
English
Adjective
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.
- 1937, Annual Departmental Reports of the Straits Settlements... (page 894)
Related terms
- premunition
- premunity