teadus inimeste, loomade ja taimede immuunsusest, teadus, mis käsitleb organismide haiguskindlust ja kaitsereaktsioone, that branch of biomedical science concerned with the response of the organism to antigenic challenge, the recognition of self and not self, and all the biological (in vivo), serological (in vitro), and physical chemical aspects of immune phenomena, a science that deals with the immune system and the cell-mediated and humoral aspects of immunity and immune responses, the branch of medicine and biology concerned with immunity, partie de la biologie qui étudie les phénomènes d'immunité, leurs conditions d'apparition, leurs mécanismes et les déductions prophylactiques et thérapeutiques qu'on peut en tirer