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acquired immunity is a noun meaning "immunity to a particular disease that is not innate but has been acquired during life; immunity can be acquired by the development of antibodies after an attack of an infectious disease or by a pregnant mother passing antibodies through the placenta to a fetus or by vaccination". It carries one recorded sense.
immunity to a particular disease that is not innate but has been acquired during life; immunity can be acquired by the development of antibodies after an attack of an infectious disease or by a pregnant mother passing antibodies through the placenta to a fetus or by vaccination
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for acquired immunity come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.