0 past simple and past 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): --
As it is, the measles case definition may be missing cases with attenuated measles in partly immunized individuals.
All plaques were first screened with a pool of antibodies of ' immunized ' animals from all 3 farms.
Each turbot was immunized by an intraperitoneal injection of 200 ml of the corresponding emulsion, solution or suspension.
They were not immunized against typhus, and did not have appropriate training for such an emergency situation.
Lesions in haematophagous flies after feeding on rabbits immunized with fly tissues.
There was also evidence of adverse effects on parasite development in these 'immunized' rats.
On two properties where lambs were first immunized at 6-7 weeks old, the vaccine was 85-100 % effective.
Following the first year of vaccination the bulk of susceptibles in the population (over 90 %) would be immunized.
