Definition of immunology Immunology

/ɪˌmjunɑˈlʌʤi/ - [imyunalujee] - im•mu•nol•o•gy

We found 5 definitions of immunology from 5 different sources.

What does immunology mean?

WordNet

Noun Plural: immunologies
immunology - the branch of medical science that studies the body's immune system
		medical specialty, medicine the learned profession that is mastered by graduate training in a medical school and that is devoted to preventing or alleviating or curing diseases and injuries; "he studied medicine at Harvard"
		chemoimmunology, immunochemistry the field of chemistry concerned with chemical processes in immunology (such as chemical studies of antigens and antibodies)
		immunopathology the branch of immunology that deals with pathologies of the immune system

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Wiktionary

immunology (Noun)
The branch of medicine that studies the body's immune system .

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immunology
A branch of biology concerned with the native or acquired resistance of higher animal forms and humans to infections.

Wikipedia

Immunology is the study of the immune system. Immune systems are biological systems that organisms use to prevent invasion and parasitism by other organisms. The simplest form of it is the DNA restriction system evolved in bacteria to prevent infection by bacteriophages.

Usually, Immunology is taken to mean the study of mammalian immune systems, which are much more complex, and also prone to much error.

Innate immunity.

There are two broad, artificial subdivisions of mammalian immune systems: the innate (or natural) and the acquired (or adaptive). The innate immune system is usually meant to encompass cells and systems in the mammalian immune system that does not require previous exposure to a particular pathogen for function.

Study of these focuses often on errors of the immune system, which often cause more damage than what they are detecting and reacting to. In effect, the immune system is what decides "what is part of this body" by ignoring its intervention. Some infections, like HIV exploit the limits or weaknesses of the human immune system very effectively and able to make themselves part of the body. Artificial means are often used to restore immune system function in an HIV-challenged body, and prevent the onset of AIDS. This is one of the most complex issues in immunology as it involves literally every level of that system. This research during the 1980s and 1990s radically changed the view of the human immune system and its functions and integration in the human bo