0 present participle of immunize
1 to protect a person or animal against a disease by putting a substance into the body to make it produce antibodies (= proteins in the blood that fight disease):
Some mechanism of ' innate ' immunity, improving with age, could contribute to more efficient protection against disease even without immunizing encounters.
The strikers refused to elect a leadership, thus immunizing themselves from the effects of victimization and cooption.
However, if infection is transient and immunizing, the presence of infection in older individuals indicates that horizontal infection has occurred at least occasionally.
The proportion of eosinophils generally increased in the peripheral blood with the duration of the immunizing infection.
For this reason the primary immunizing infection of 25 cercariae was administered via the abdominal skin.
Also, increasing the number of immunizing cercariae in single or multiple vaccinations from 1000 to 3000 failed to increase the resistance.
Although all isolates elicited protective responses, two major patterns of immunizing ability could be distinguished (table 4).
The antibody immune response was evaluated after each immunizing dose.
