immunosuppressive drug

Questions about immunosuppressive drug

What does immunosuppressive drug mean?

immunosuppressive drug means "a drug that lowers the body's normal immune response".

What is another word for immunosuppressive drug?

Close synonyms include immunosuppressant, immunosuppressor, immunosuppressive, immune suppressant drug. 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 immunosuppressive drug a common word?

immunosuppressive drug 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.