IMMUNOSUPPRESSED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does immunosuppressed mean? 

• IMMUNOSUPPRESSED (adjective)
  The adjective IMMUNOSUPPRESSED has 1 sense:

1. of persons whose immune response is inadequate

  Familiarity information: IMMUNOSUPPRESSED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• IMMUNOSUPPRESSED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of persons whose immune response is inadequate

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Pertainym:

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))

 Context examples 

A lymphoproliferative disorder that develops in patients who are immunosuppressed with methotrexate.

(Methotrexate-Associated Lymphoproliferative Disorder, NCI Thesaurus/WHO)

This organism causes a life-threatening pneumonia in immunosuppressed hosts.

(Researchers sequence genome of a fungus that causes life-threatening pneumonia, NIH)

G. terrae is normally found in the soil and infection in humans is rare, occurring mostly in immunosuppressed and immunocompromised patients.

(Gordonia terrae, NCI Thesaurus)

M. orale is commensal in the human oropharynx and is usually non-pathogenic, but can cause infections in immunosuppressed patients and is a common contaminant found in cultured cells.

(Mycoplasma orale, NCI Thesaurus)

M. hominis is commensal in the urogenital flora of adults, but is an opportunistic pathogen implicated in female genital infections and may also cause infections in newborns, especially in those that are immunosuppressed.

(Mycoplasma hominis, NCI Thesaurus)

A substance used to prevent or treat cytomegalovirus and herpes simplex infections that may occur when the body is immunosuppressed.

(Acyclovir, NCI Dictionary)

G. aichiensis is an opportunistic pathogen in immunocompetent and immunosuppressed patients.

(Gordonia aichiensis, NCI Thesaurus)