immune carrier

1. 1.

   (medicine) a person (or animal) who has some pathogen to which he is immune but who can pass it on to others

   Synonymscarrier

   Broaderimmunevector

   NarrowerMallon

   medicine

Questions about immune carrier

What does immune carrier mean?

immune carrier means "(medicine) a person (or animal) who has some pathogen to which he is immune but who can pass it on to others".

What is another word for immune carrier?

Close synonyms include carrier. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is immune carrier a common word?

immune carrier is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.