IMMUNITY

An Illustrated Encyclopedic Medical Dictionary · 1893 · p. 18

n. I2m-mu2n'i2-ti2. Fr., immunite. Ger., 7mmunitdt, Unansteckbarkeit. It., immunita. Sp., inmunidad. The property which the organism may acquire of being safe from attacks of certain infectious diseases, either in consequence of a former attack or from any other cause. [L, 164 (a, 27).] [s. 439]