immune

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im·mune /ɪˈmjuːn/ adjectiveadj

1 MHEALTHY[not before noun] someone who is immune to a particular disease cannot catch it 〔對某種疾病〕有免疫力的

Once we’ve had the disease, we’re immune for life.

我們一旦得過這種病，就獲得了終身免疫力。

2 immune response/reaction the reaction of the body’s immune system to something that is harmful 免疫反應

HIV is a progressive disease which the immune response ultimately fails to control.

人類免疫缺陷病毒是一種進行性疾病，最終免疫反應無法將其控制。

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immune response/reaction• Many patients have a strong family history of allergies, which are genetic and involve excessive immune reaction.• Other molecules, the happens, also generate an immune response.• Significant numbers of larvae reach the lungs and migrate to the bronchioles where they are killed by the animal's immune response.• The reason: The vitamin is involved in raising a healthy immune response.• It is known which specific immune responses are required for therapeutic benefit, so we have proceeded cautiously.• Discussion Coeliac disease probably represents an aberrant immune response by antigen specific T cells of the small intestine to certain cereal peptides.• This immune response leads to the destruction of the beta cells that make insulin.• Because histoplasmosis can mount an immune response, skin tests are often done.

3 EFFECT/INFLUENCE[not before noun] not affected by something that happens or is done 不受影響的

immune to

The Labour Party is not immune to new ideas.

工黨也受到新思潮的影響。

4 PROTECT[not before noun] specially protected from something unpleasant 豁免的，可免於…的

immune from

The senior members of the group appeared to be immune from arrest.

該團體的資深成員似乎可免遭逮捕。

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immune• From that fate no trader was immune.• What happens to your body then is that feelings of helplessness and hopelessness soon translate into depressed immune function.• Continually feeling bad about how your body looks limits your self-esteem, which eventually undercuts your immune power.• Thus, there is some suggestion of variation in the immune response within Crohn's disease.• As intriguing as these results are, much remains unclear about the impact of low doses of alcohol on the immune sys-tem.• These cells form part of the immune system and help to prevent the body from getting diseases.• I thought hard about my actual immune system and the white cells of which it is largely composed.• Their immune systems are so damaged that colds and bugs which normally take a few days to clear can take weeks or months.

immune to• The dictatorship seems immune to economic pressures.• Some people are immune to the virus.

immune from• The governor is popular, but not immune from criticism.

Origin immune

(1800-1900) Latin immunis, from munis “ready for service”

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