immune response

1. 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

   Synonymsimmune reactionimmunologic response

   Broaderreaction

   Narroweranamnestic responsehumoral immune responsecell-mediated immune responsecomplement fixation

   Partscomplement

   fungus · bacteria

Questions about immune response

What does immune response mean?

immune response means "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".

What is another word for immune response?

Close synonyms include immune reaction, immunologic response. 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 response a common word?

immune response 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.