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ANERGY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does anergy mean?
• ANERGY (noun)
The noun ANERGY has 2 senses:
1. reduction or lack of an immune response to a specific antigen
2. inactivity and lack of energy
Familiarity information: ANERGY used as a noun is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Reduction or lack of an immune response to a specific antigen
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("anergy" is a kind of...):
immunological disorder (a disorder of the immune system)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Inactivity and lack of energy
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("anergy" is a kind of...):
inaction; inactiveness; inactivity (the state of being inactive)
Context examples
Multitest CMI is a diagnostic technique for detection of anergy (nonresponsiveness to antigens) by means of delayed hypersensitivity skin testing.
(Cell-Mediated Immunity Multitest, NCI Thesaurus)
Induced or programmed clonal lymphocyte anergy is believed to be the second major mechanism (after clonal deletion) of the development of self tolerance by the immune system.
(Anergy, NCI Thesaurus)
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