passive transfer

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noun

Immunology. injection of lymphocytes or antibody from an immune or sensitized donor to a nonimmune host in order to impart immunity or test for allergic reactions.

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Origin of passive transfer

First recorded in 1940–45

Words nearby passive transfer

passive resistance, passive restraint, passive safety, passive smoke, passive smoking, passive transfer, passive tremor, passive vocabulary, passive voice, passivism, passivity

How to use passive transfer in a sentence

If we want to prevent others from your fate, we need to stop being so passive on these issues.
Dear Leelah, We Will Fight On For You: A Letter to a Dead Trans Teen|Parker Molloy|January 1, 2015|DAILY BEAST
Parents who want to transfer custody of a child to someone other than a relative must seek permission from a judge.
Judge: Rehoming Kids Is Trafficking|Tina Traster|December 30, 2014|DAILY BEAST
“I ran for my life,” said Tenayo, who is a home attendant for an autistic resident, but wants to transfer because of the crime.
Anger at The Cop Killer - And The Police|M.L. Nestel|December 21, 2014|DAILY BEAST
He suggested I needed mental help, and offered to help me transfer to another college.
I Was Gang Raped at a UVA Frat 30 Years Ago, and No One Did Anything|Liz Seccuro|December 16, 2014|DAILY BEAST

In a rather passive aggressive letter, the House Minority Leader wrote.
Nancy Pelosi Plays Hardball On Cromnibus|Ben Jacobs|December 11, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Passive hyperemia occurs most commonly in diseases of the heart and liver and in pregnancy.
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis|James Campbell Todd
In conversation their minds are apt to remain in a recipient passive state.
Assimilative Memory|Marcus Dwight Larrowe (AKA Prof. A. Loisette)
He, Bastien-Lepage, painter of the soil, found himself unable to transfer to canvas the enchantment of that land of fairy tale!
Bastien Lepage|Fr. Crastre
Giles; aluminium and its bronze in 1864; the transfer process in 1856 by Tearne and Richmond.
Showell's Dictionary of Birmingham|Thomas T. Harman and Walter Showell
It is immaterial to whom the transfer is made if the purpose be to prefer one creditor to another.
Putnam's Handy Law Book for the Layman|Albert Sidney Bolles

Medical definitions for passive transfer

passive transfer

The transfer of skin-sensitizing antibodies from the blood of an allergic individual to that of a nonallergic individual in order to test for an allergic reaction to specific allergens.