immunogen

1. 1.

   any substance or organism that provokes an immune response (produces immunity) when introduced into the body

   Synonymsimmunizing agent

   Broaderantigen

   Narrowervaccinetoxin antitoxin

Other forms of immunogen

plural

immunogens·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about immunogen

What does immunogen mean?

immunogen means "any substance or organism that provokes an immune response (produces immunity) when introduced into the body".

How many syllables are in immunogen?

immunogen has 4 syllables: im-mu-no-gen. The stress falls on "mu".

What is another word for immunogen?

Close synonyms include immunizing agent. 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 immunogen a common word?

immunogen 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.