Immunosuppression

Definition: Immunosuppression

Immunosuppression

Noun

1. Lowering the body's normal immune response to invasion by foreign substances; can be deliberate (as in lowering the immune response to prevent rejection of a transplanted organ) or incidental (as a side effect of radiotherapy or chemotherapy for cancer).

Specialty Definitions: Immunosuppression

Domain	Definitions
Health	Deliberate prevention or diminution of the host's immune response. It may be nonspecific as in the administration of immunosuppressive agents (drugs or radiation) or by lymphocyte depletion or may be specific as in desensitization or the simultaneous administration of antigen and immunosuppressive drugs. (references)
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Specialty Definition: Immunosuppression

Immunosuppression is the medical suppression of the immune system. This is usually done to prevent the body to reject an organ transplant.

When an organ is transplanted, the immune system of the recipient will most likely recognize it as foreign tissue and attack it. The destruction of the organ will, if untreated, end in the death of the recipient.

To prevent that, immunosuppressant drugs are used to inhibit the reaction of the immune system. The downside is that with such a deactivated immune system, the body is very vulnerable to diseases, even those usually considered harmless. Also, prolonged use of immunosuppressants increases the risk of cancer.

Immunosuppression is also used to counteract autoimmune diseases, such as rheumatoid arthritis or Crohn's disease, to prevent the immune system from attacking healthy parts of the body.

Commercial Usage: Immunosuppression

Domain	Title
Books	Immunosuppression in Inflammatory Bowel Diseases: Standards, New Developments, Future Trends (reference) Immunosuppression Under Trial (reference) Infections and immunosuppression in subhuman primates: the proceedings of the International Symposium on Infections and Immunosuppression in Subhuman Primates, Rijswijk, December 1969 (reference) Local Immunosuppression of Organ Transplants (reference) The Molecular Biology of Immunosuppression (Molecular Medical Science Series) (reference) (more book examples)
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Non-Fiction Usage: Immunosuppression

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		Develop better drugs for immunosuppression. (references)
		Components of red cell transfusions, possibly leukocytes, may induce immunosuppression. (references)
		The mechanisms are unknown but may be distinct from those that mediate immunosuppression. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Usage Frequency: Immunosuppression

"Immunosuppression" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Immunosuppression" is used about 22 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Immunosuppression

Modern Translations: Immunosuppression

Language		Translations for "immunosuppression"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Danish		immunosuppression. (various references)

Dutch		immunosuppressie. (various references)

French		immunosupression, immuno-suppression, immunosuppression. (various references)

German		Immunsuppression. (various references)

Italian		immunosuppressione. (various references)

Pig Latin		immunosuppressionay.(various references)

Portuguese		imuno-supressão. (various references)

Spanish		inmunosupresión (immunosuppressive therapy). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations: Immunosuppression

Anagrams: Immunosuppression

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "e-i-i-m-m-n-n-o-o-p-p-r-s-s-s-u-u"
	-3 letters: immunosuppress.
	Words containing the letters "e-i-i-m-m-n-n-o-o-p-p-r-s-s-s-u-u"
	+1 letter: immunosuppressions.
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Alternative Orthography: Immunosuppression

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

49 6D 6D 75 6E 6F 73 75 70 70 72 65 73 73 69 6F 6E

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

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

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

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HTML Code (1990) (references)

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ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0049 006D 006D 0075 006E 006F 0073 0075 0070 0070 0072 0065 0073 0073 0069 006F 006E

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

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

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	22	74,468

Expression	Frequency per Day
immunosuppression	13
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Immunosuppression

Definition: Immunosuppression