IMMUNE CARRIER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does immune carrier mean? 

• IMMUNE CARRIER (noun)
  The noun IMMUNE CARRIER has 1 sense:

1. (medicine) a person (or animal) who has some pathogen to which he is immune but who can pass it on to others

  Familiarity information: IMMUNE CARRIER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• IMMUNE CARRIER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(medicine) a person (or animal) who has some pathogen to which he is immune but who can pass it on to others

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

carrier; immune carrier

Hypernyms ("immune carrier" is a kind of...):

transmitter; vector (any agent (person or animal or microorganism) that carries and transmits a disease)

immune (a person who is immune to a particular infection)

Domain category:

medical specialty; medicine (the branches of medical science that deal with nonsurgical techniques)

Instance hyponyms:

Mallon; Mary Mallon; Typhoid Mary (United States cook who was an immune carrier of typhoid fever and who infected dozens of people (1870-1938))