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immunologically

immunologically

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In a way that involves the body's immune system
  • adverb
  • /ˌɪmjunəˈlɑdʒɪkli/
  • Specialized
: inmunológicamente
  • And it's the reason why you can't do organ transplants between people that aren't immunologically matched.
  • immunologically mediated
  • immunologically naive

Examples

  • Recently, psoriasis is thought to be an immunologically mediated disease where T-cells play an important role in its pathogenesis.

    Academic text (2007)
  • Such a process would produce an individualized and patient-matched stem cell line that could be used for disease research or to grow immunologically matched replacement tissues or organs.

    Academic text (2017)
  • Immunologically, the tumor looks too much like the body for the body to recognize it as hostile.

    Blog text (7)
  • The clone of cells formed from this hybrid entity would be almost identical to the patient's own and should be immunologically acceptable.

    Academic text (2001)
  • Mucormycosis is a rapidly progressive infection that usually develops in patients who are metabolically or immunologically compromised.

    Academic text (2004)
  • This overactive local immune response depletes the systemic immune system, thus creating an immunologically compromised state.

    Academic text (2003)
  • It is interesting that most patients with chronic invasive fungal sinusitis are immunologically intact, as was our patient.

    Academic text (2008)
  • Nucleic acid-based vaccination is a topic of growing interest, especially plasmid DNA (pDNA) encoding immunologically important antigens.

    Blog text (1)
  • However, most bullous drug reactions are the result of an immunologically mediated inflammatory response, although pseudo-porphyria cutanea tarda (pseudo-PCT) is not associated with significant inflammation.

    Academic text (2007)
  • In immunologically compromised patients, even mild infections can lead to severe complications.

Surface Forms

immunologically positive

Morphology

immunologically = immunological (transparent) = immunology + ical + ly

Formed by the regular adverbial suffix '-ly' from the adjective 'immunological', which itself clearly relates to the noun 'immunology'.

Etymology

Immunologically comes from immune meaning 'protected' and the ending -logy meaning 'study', like in biology, plus the ending -ally meaning 'in a way'. So, to do something immunologically is to do it in a way that involves the immune system or protection against disease.