immunologically naïve
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.72 in modern English
32
Scrabble Score
20
Letters
7
Syllables
13
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Example Sentences
- "In Western Kenya, approximately 100 percent of immunologically naïve older infants and toddlers develop confirmed clinical malaria during high season."
- "Animals entering shelters are either (a) immunologically naïve and susceptible to infection and development of disease if exposed to pathogens; (b) already immune as a result of natural immunization (e.g., recovery from infection or disease) or previous vaccination; or (c) already infected, either showing clinical signs or possibly incubating disease and/or shedding the infectious organisms to other susceptible animals."
- "Viruses that cause persistent productive infections (e.g., cytomegalovirus, HIV) are a particular problem because the infected person is a continual source of virus that can be spread to immunologically naïve people."
Inflected Forms
more immunologically naïve (comparative)
most immunologically naïve (superlative)