IMMUNE REACTION
Dictionary entry overview: What does immune reaction mean?
• IMMUNE REACTION (noun)
The noun IMMUNE REACTION has 1 sense:
1. a bodily defense reaction that recognizes an invading substance (an antigen: such as a virus or fungus or bacteria or transplanted organ) and produces antibodies specific against that antigen
Familiarity information: IMMUNE REACTION used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• IMMUNE REACTION (noun)
Meaning:
A bodily defense reaction that recognizes an invading substance (an antigen: such as a virus or fungus or bacteria or transplanted organ) and produces antibodies specific against that antigen
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Synonyms:
immune reaction; immune response; immunologic response
Hypernyms ("immune reaction" is a kind of...):
reaction; response (a bodily process occurring due to the effect of some foregoing stimulus or agent)
Meronyms (parts of "immune reaction"):
complement (one of a series of enzymes in the blood serum that are part of the immune response)
Domain category:
bacteria; bacterium ((microbiology) single-celled or noncellular spherical or spiral or rod-shaped organisms lacking chlorophyll that reproduce by fission; important as pathogens and for biochemical properties; taxonomy is difficult; often considered plants)
fungus (a parasitic plant lacking chlorophyll and leaves and true stems and roots and reproducing by spores)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "immune reaction"):
anamnestic reaction; anamnestic response (renewed rapid production of an antibody on the second (or subsequent) encounter with the same antigen)
humoral immune response (an immune response (chiefly against bacterial invasion) that is mediated by B cells)
cell-mediated immune response (an immune response (chiefly against viral or fungal invasions or transplanted tissue) that involves T cells)
complement fixation (an immune response in which an antigen-antibody combination inactivates a complement (so it is unavailable to participate in a second antigen-antibody combination))
