immunised
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Definition
- 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
- having been rendered unsusceptible to a disease