immunologic response

Questions about immunologic response

What does immunologic response mean?

immunologic 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 immunologic response?

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

immunologic 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.