cellular immunity

American  

[sel-yuh-ler-i-myoo-ni-tee] / ˈsɛl jə lər ɪˈmju nɪ ti /

noun

1. Immunology. Also called cell-mediated immunity. immunity that relies on the action of immune cells, such as T lymphocytes, rather than on the production of antibodies.

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cellular immunity Scientific  

/ sĕl′yə-lər /

1. See cell-mediated immunity

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Other Word Forms

• cellular-immune
  adjective

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Example Sentences

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cellular immunity

Unfortunately, the status of a person’s cellular immunity is more difficult to capture and quantify.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 20, 2023

Such a test could make it affordable to gauge cellular immunity in residents of a boarding school, a nursing home or a city, Lo Priore said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 20, 2023

"But we do not know yet if this is because of increasing cellular immunity in the population in December 2021 versus an inherent property of the strain that makes it less virulent or both."

From Salon ● Dec. 22, 2021

As my medical colleagues remind me, recovered Covid-19 patients might be expected to have levels of cellular immunity that some vaccines may not trigger.

From New York Times ● Sep. 15, 2020

Because people with X-linked agammaglobulinaemia are deficient in antibody production but not in cellular immunity, their disease was probably due to a deficiency in B-cell development only.

From Nature ● Jan. 5, 2015

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