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):
Those with negative or unsure history will be immunized with two doses (3a).
However, none of the immunized mice survived beyond day 47 of infection.
However, this response was probably not responsible for the increase in life-expectancy of the immunized mice.
The patient's surgical operators were not the source of the infection since they had been successfully immunized.
This might be relevant for significance of results where animals are immunized with complex antigenic mixtures.
All the occupational injuries reported were sustained outdoors by outdoor workers and yet very few had been previously immunized.
The chambers were implanted intraperitoneally into immunized and control jirds through an incision of 2 - 3 cm and the skin was sutured under anaesthesia.
Following the first year of vaccination the bulk of susceptibles in the population (over 90 %) would be immunized.
