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NATURAL IMMUNITY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does natural immunity mean?
• NATURAL IMMUNITY (noun)
The noun NATURAL IMMUNITY has 1 sense:
1. immunity to disease that occurs as part of an individual's natural biologic makeup
Familiarity information: NATURAL IMMUNITY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Immunity to disease that occurs as part of an individual's natural biologic makeup
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Synonyms:
innate immunity; natural immunity
Hypernyms ("natural immunity" is a kind of...):
immunity; resistance ((medicine) the condition in which an organism can resist disease)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "natural immunity"):
racial immunity (natural immunity shared by all members of a particular race)
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