immunodeficient
Americanadjective
Example Sentences
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The researchers implanted rat ovaries under the renal capsules of immunodeficient mice and confirmed their viability.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 15, 2024
If it’s the latter, Orenstein said, “they need to find that immunodeficient person.”
From New York Times ● Jun. 22, 2022
Only those with the highest-risk underlying conditions are hospitalized for treatment — mainly severely immunodeficient children.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 24, 2022
Cleveland Cavaliers forward Larry Nance Jr., who is immunodeficient because of his Crohn’s disease treatment, said in May he was worried about playing games during a pandemic.
From Reuters ● Jun. 10, 2020
Joshua Epstein and Shmuel Yaccoby, cancer cell biologists at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences in Little Rock, put human myeloma cells into human fetal bone fragments that had been implanted in immunodeficient mice.
From Nature ● Dec. 14, 2011
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