premune
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Immune to a disease through having had it before.
Example Sentences
- "[…] take special precautions to protect the animals from those ordinary tropical protozoal diseases to which the indigenous cattle are premune."
- "This was an investigation of the smallest protective dose of chloroquine amongst the premune Bantu in Tanganyika."
- "It need not in fact be assumed that the premune state is implemented by immune mechanisms different from those induced by nonliving antigens."