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Definition
the process of by which someone becomes safe from something — especially a disease (typically by learning to recognize and fight the disease through vaccination)
- He had immunized rabbits to typhoid, and he believed that if he mixed serum taken from these immune animals with typhoid germs, the germs would die.Chapter 6 (6% in)
- He produced antitoxin in the test-tube, which meant that it would be possible to immunize against certain diseases without tediously making sera by the inoculation of animals.Chapter 13 (43% in)
- Certainly he who had lived to study the methods of immunizing mankind against disease had little interest in actually using those methods.Chapter 32 (1% in)
- I do think the phage will immunize against the plague—you bet I'll be mighty well injected with it myself!Chapter 32 (34% in)
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