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Definition of immunize:

  • (verb) To make someone or something immune to something.

Sentence Examples:

Vaccination is for the purpose of immunizing cattle that are brought from a non-infected district to an infected district.

Other inmates, some previously immunized and some not, were infected with typhus to demonstrate the efficacy of the vaccines.

That poisonous substances are excreted into the bile is shown also by the immunizing experiments of Professor Koch against bovine plague.

It takes a long time before the immunizing principle is so disseminated that every part of the tree will have an equal resistance.

If the immunizing serum is potent and the virulent serum is really virulent, then the animal so treated becomes permanently immune.

Serum therapy is based on the demonstrated fact of immunity, and of the possibility of producing it by injecting the serum of immunized animals.

It has been noted how Dunbar nearly killed his first patient by injecting the serum of the horse that had been immunized to pollen.

A fetus cannot make immunizing bodies before its eighth month, and on that account the earlier the fetus is infected, the more likely it is to die.

The serum from the blood of the second animal is used to immunize other animals, and it is from these immunized animals that the antitoxin serum is prepared.

During these five years this eminent man proved that it was possible to protect or immunize the lower animals, rabbits and dogs, against inoculation with the virulent virus.

Who knows but that out of this little gathering may not be evolved some theory which, injected into the circulation of modern life, shall immunize us against this social malady.

In passive immunity the blood serum of an actively immunized animal is introduced into a second animal, which thereupon becomes immune, though its cells are not concerned in the process.

The immunizing dose is not so large as the curative dose given to the patient, but it is usually sufficient to protect those exposed to diphtheria for a month from the time of injection.

If we give a small injection of virulent blood at the same time, or soon after the immunizing serum is given, then the treated hog becomes immune for a long period, perhaps for life.

This method makes it possible to give a single massive dose of bacteria which is sufficiently large to completely immunize the individual against the disease, and which prolongs the immunizing period by allowing slow absorption over a period of several weeks.