IMMUNOLOGICAL DISORDER

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A disorder of the immune system

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("immunological disorder" is a kind of...):

disorder; upset (a physical condition in which there is a disturbance of normal functioning)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "immunological disorder"):

immunodeficiency (immunological disorder in which some part of the body's immune system is inadequate and resistance to infectious diseases is reduced)

immunosuppression (lowering the body's normal immune response to invasion by foreign substances; can be deliberate (as in lowering the immune response to prevent rejection of a transplanted organ) or incidental (as a side effect of radiotherapy or chemotherapy for cancer))

anergy (reduction or lack of an immune response to a specific antigen)

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