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adjective

Immune adj.

Exempt; protected.

(Med.) Protected from disease due to the action of the immune system, especially by having been inoculated against or previously exposed to a disease.

(Med.) Of or pertaining to the immune system or the components of the immune system.

Not responsive; as, immune to suggestion.

noun

Immune n. One who is immune; esp., a person who is immune from a disease by reason of previous affection with the disease or inoculation.

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Etymology of 'Immune'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Immune" Quotes from Famous Books

... of secular criticism, and you know you shall be found wanting," and at the voice he quailed, feeling his weakness. Then it was that Rome claimed him, showing him her unique position among the Churches. Never allowing or fostering modern doubt, immune against innovation, with myriad and labyrinthine channels of work for the different temperaments that entered within her gates, she presented at that time the spectacle of the only Church not divided against ...

— Ringfield - A Novel • Susie Frances Harrison

... haunt of wreckers and smugglers. The chapel, in spite of its massive construction, fell a victim to the ravages of wind and weather, but still served as a convenient shelter for the lawless Cornishmen who profited by the misfortunes of honest seamen. Immune from interference, by reason of the superstitious awe in which the island was held by the country-folk, the smugglers and wreckers thrived exceedingly until late in the eighteenth century, when stern measures were taken to suppress their misdeeds. From that time St. Mena's ...

— The Submarine Hunters - A Story of the Naval Patrol Work in the Great War • Percy F. Westerman

... in order of susceptibility. Immune animals. Experimental inoculation, symptoms of disease. Post-mortem appearances. Virulence: Length of time maintained. Optimum medium? Minimal lethal dose. Exaltation and attenuation of ...

— The Elements of Bacteriological Technique • John William Henry Eyre

... our kind we have developed resisting power; to no germs do we succumb without a struggle, and to many—those that cause putrefaction in dead matter, for instance—our living frames are altogether immune. But there are no bacteria in Mars, and directly these invaders arrived, directly they drank and fed, our microscopic allies began to work their overthrow. Already when I watched them they were irrevocably doomed, dying and rotting even as ...

— The War of the Worlds • H. G. Wells

... the words of the song: "Sea, sea, why are you angry with me?" Discipline had to be relaxed those first days, for a seasick man is quite willing to be shot and has no interest in the war, and doesn't care which horse wins the boat-race. Seasickness never gets any sympathy from those who are immune, but sometimes just retribution comes on the scoffer, and it is some satisfaction to see a man's face turn green who but a few hours ago had been whistling with a selfish cheerfulness while you were revealing your own sticky past to ...

— "Over There" with the Australians • R. Hugh Knyvett

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