All 4 Uses of
immunization
in
Arrowsmith
- 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.†
Chpt 6 *immunized = vaccinated (to protect from a disease)standard suffix: The suffix "-ize" converts a word to a verb. This is the same pattern you see in words like apologize, theorize, and dramatize.
- 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.†
Chpt 13
- Certainly he who had lived to study the methods of immunizing mankind against disease had little interest in actually using those methods.†
Chpt 32immunizing = vaccinating (to protect from a disease)standard suffix: The suffix "-ize" converts a word to a verb. This is the same pattern you see in words like apologize, theorize, and dramatize.
- I do think the phage will immunize against the plague—you bet I'll be mighty well injected with it myself!†
Chpt 32immunize = vaccinated (to protect from a disease)standard suffix: The suffix "-ize" converts a word to a verb. This is the same pattern you see in words like apologize, theorize, and dramatize.
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)