immunizes
Gives disease resistance
Immunizes means to make immune, typically by vaccination or exposure that triggers the body's defenses against a disease: The clinic immunizes children against measles and whooping cough.
Extended to non-medical contexts, it means to protect from harm or influence: Wealth doesn't immunize you from heartbreak.
Disease prevention injection
- syringeMedical injection tool
- injectionSyringe-delivered dose
- jabQuick, straight blow
- shotQuick liquor serving
doses · booster · adjuvant · serum · clinic · nurse · pediatrician · pharmaceutical
Widespread disease occurrence
- outbreakSudden eruption of trouble
- pandemicGlobal disease outbreak
- quarantineIsolation preventing disease transmission
- prophylaxisPreventive medical treatment
eradication · disease control · public health · surveillance · containment · mass vaccination · polio · smallpox
Proteins targeting pathogens
- white blood cellsPathogen-fighting components of plasma
- lymphocytesAdaptive immunity cells
- T cellsThymus-derived immune lymphocytes
- macrophagesLarge pathogen-engulfing immune cells
immunoglobulins · cytokines · interferon · antigen · spleen · thymus · bone marrow · pathogen
Protective barriers for defense
- safeguardsMeasures preventing harm
- defendsActs to protect
- fortifiesStrengthens against threat
- securesMakes fast or safe
guards · buffers · resistance · barrier · insulates · protects · wards off · neutralizes
vaccine
Disease prevention injection
shot · doses · booster · adjuvant · serum · clinic · nurse · pediatrician · pharmaceutical · inactivated
epidemic
Widespread disease occurrence
- outbreakSudden eruption of trouble
- pandemicGlobal disease outbreak
- quarantineIsolation preventing disease transmission
prophylaxis · eradication · disease control · public health · surveillance · containment · mass vaccination · polio · smallpox · measles
antibodies
Proteins targeting pathogens
- white blood cellsPathogen-fighting components of plasma
- lymphocytesAdaptive immunity cells
- T cellsThymus-derived immune lymphocytes
macrophages · immunoglobulins · cytokines · interferon · antigen · spleen · thymus · bone marrow · pathogen · resistance
shields
Protective barriers for defense
- safeguardsMeasures preventing harm
- defendsActs to protect
- fortifiesStrengthens against threat
secures · guards · buffers · resistance · barrier · insulates · protects · wards off · neutralizes · counters
immunizesinfects
Transmits pathogens to
exposes · contaminates · sensitizes · sickens · endangers
- adult immunizationVaccines given after childhood
- childhood immunizationVaccines given to children
- immunization scheduleTimetable for protective injections
- immunization campaignsOrganized mass inoculation efforts
- immunization recordsDocumentation of vaccinations received
- mass immunizationWidespread protective inoculation effort
immunize, immunization, immunized, immunizing, immunizations, immunizer, immunizers