Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Having been rendered unsusceptible to a disease: Describes a person or animal that has been made resistant to a specific infectious disease, typically through vaccination or previous infection.

Usage

• The adjective "immunised" is used to describe the state of being protected against a disease. It is often used in medical, public health, and personal health contexts.
• It is typically followed by a prepositional phrase beginning with "against" to specify the disease.
• Example:
• It can be used attributively (before a noun) or predicatively (after a linking verb like "is" or "are").

Examples

• Attributive use (before a noun):
  • The immunised population helped prevent a major outbreak.
  • We need to reach every immunised child in the registry.
• Predicative use (after a linking verb):
  • After receiving the vaccine, she was fully immunised.
  • The herd is considered immunised once 95% of animals are vaccinated.

Advanced Usage

• "Immunised against": This is the standard construction to specify the disease.
  • Travellers are advised to be immunised against yellow fever.
• In financial contexts, "immunised" can metaphorically describe a portfolio protected against interest rate risk, but this is a specialized, technical usage distinct from the primary medical meaning.

Variants and Related Words

• Immunize (verb): To make a person or animal immune to a disease, especially by vaccination.
  • The campaign aims to immunize all infants.
• Immunization (noun): The process of making a person or animal immune to a disease; the fact of being immunised.
  • Childhood immunization is crucial for public health.
• Immune (adjective): Protected against a particular disease; more broadly, not affected or influenced by something.
  • He seems immune to criticism.
• Immunity (noun): The ability of an organism to resist a particular infection or toxin.
  • The vaccine provides long-lasting immunity.

Synonyms

• Vaccinated: Treated with a vaccine to produce immunity.
• Inoculated: Introduced a vaccine or antigen into the body to produce immunity.
• Protected: (In this context) shielded from a disease.

Antonyms

• Susceptible: Likely to be influenced or harmed by a particular thing, such as a disease.
• Vulnerable: Exposed to the possibility of being attacked or harmed, especially in terms of health.

Related Phrases

• Herd immunity: The indirect protection from an infectious disease that occurs when a large percentage of a population has become immunised.
  • Herd immunity protects those who cannot be vaccinated.
• Fully immunised: Having received all recommended doses of a vaccine or series of vaccines.
  • The child's record shows she is fully immunised.

Adjective

1. having been rendered unsusceptible to a disease