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Immune Reaction

Definition: Immune Reaction

Immune Reaction

Noun

1. A bodily defense reaction that recognizes an invading substance (an antigen: such as a virus or fungus or bacteria or transplanted organ) and produces antibodies specific against that antigen.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Immune Reaction

Synonyms: immune response (n), immunologic response (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Immune Reaction

English words defined with "immune reaction": atrophic arthritisrheumatism, rheumatoid arthritis. (references)
Specialty definitions using "immune reaction": Antigens, Antigens, HelminthImmune Complex Diseases, immunological toleranceT-cell depletion. (references)

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Non-Fiction Usage: Immune Reaction

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

However, the immune reaction is a good place to start because of its importance. (references)

Immunosuppressive agents work by blocking the immune reaction that contributes to inflammation. (references)

Neither the vector nor the CFTR protein produced from it should cause an immune reaction in the patient. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Immune Reaction

Language Translations for "immune reaction"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

mekanismen,der fører til immunreaktion (mechanism which gives rise to the immune reaction). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

mechanisme dat de immunologische reactie opwekt (mechanism which gives rise to the immune reaction). (various references)

   

French

  

immunoréaction. (various references)

   

German

  

Wirkmechanismus der Immunreaktion (mechanism which gives rise to the immune reaction). (various references)

   

Italian

  

reazione immunitaria che può essere analizzata in vitro (immune reaction that can be analyzed in test tube), meccanismo alla base della reazione immune (mechanism which gives rise to the immune reaction). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

immuneay eactionray.(various references)

   

Spanish

  

reacción inmunitaria que puede estudiarse in vitro (immune reaction that can be analyzed in test tube), mecanismo activador de la reacción inmunológica (mechanism which gives rise to the immune reaction). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Immune Reaction

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-e-e-i-i-m-m-n-n-o-r-t-u"

-2 letters: enantiomeric, nonmetameric.

-3 letters: countermine, enumeration, mountaineer.

-4 letters: ammunition, auctioneer, counterman, countermen, creatinine, enantiomer, enunciator, incinerate, innumerate, interocean, manometric, meitnerium, nonmimetic, numeration, renominate, renunciate, rumination, unromantic.

-5 letters: americium, ammonitic, ancienter, anticrime, antinomic, carnitine, centurion, comminute, container, contemner, continuer, cremation, crenation, criminate, encounter, enunciate, immanence, imminence, incaution, increment, inurement, manometer, manticore, mentioner, metameric, mincemeat, miniature, minuteman, minutemen, mortician, mucronate, nanometer, nectarine, neutronic, nonmetric, ruination, runcinate, triennium, uncertain, uraninite, urination.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-e-e-i-i-m-m-n-n-o-r-t-u"
 

+2 letters: intercommunicate.

 

+3 letters: intercommunicated, intercommunicates.

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Alternative Orthography: Immune Reaction


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

49 6D 6D 75 6E 65      52 65 61 63 74 69 6F 6E

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001001 01101101 01101101 01110101 01101110 01100101 00100000 01010010 01100101 01100001 01100011 01110100 01101001 01101111 01101110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#73 &#109 &#109 &#117 &#110 &#101 &#32 &#82 &#101 &#97 &#99 &#116 &#105 &#111 &#110

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0049 006D 006D 0075 006E 0065      0052 0065 0061 0063 0074 0069 006F 006E

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

43797987807125271676986758180

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Quotations: Non-fiction
5. Translations: Modern
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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