nonimmune
IPA: nɑnɪmjun
adjective
- (medicine) Not immune; lacking immunity
- (medicine) Unrelated to the immune system
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Examples of "nonimmune" in Sentences
- The temperature and pulse of all nonimmune residents were carefully recorded three times a day.
- Even a previously nonimmune individual develops a specific immune response to a malaria infection.
- Then for twenty days men who were nonimmune to the fever slept in this building, with no evil effects.
- No nonimmune resident was subjected to inoculation who had not passed in this camp the full period of incubation of yellow fever, with one exception, to be hereinafter mentioned.
- The resultant deforestation, land exploitation, dam-building and irrigation has, in turn, led to the creation of vector habitats and movement of nonimmune people into malarious zones.
- For those cases where we had to plant -- at a time when the few such immune trees had not yet been located and when we were forced to plant certain nonimmune trees as stock -- we are not making the first immune grafts.
- But no human being ever achieved an immunity to malaria; there was no such thing as a natural immunity to yellow fever, and if many blacks had been made immune to yellow fever before reaching Panama, there were vastly more blacks at work than whites, so the number of nonimmune blacks on the Isthmus was always quite large.
- A certain number of mosquitoes having filled themselves with blood from this first case after an interval of twelve days or more bite nonimmune individuals living in the vicinity, and these individuals after a brief period of incubation fall sick with the disease; being bitten by other mosquitoes they serve to transmit the disease through the "intermediate host" to still others.
- The inference by Dr. Reed and his associates, from the experiments thus far made, was that yellow fever may be; transmitted by mosquitoes of the genus _Culex_, but that in order to convey the infection to a nonimmune individual the insect must be kept for twelve days or longer after it has filled itself with blood from a yellow fever patient in the earlier stages of the disease.
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