| Meaning | The branch of medical science that studies the body's immune system. |
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| Category of | affinity | (immunology) the attraction between an antigen and an antibody |
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| antigen | Any substance (as a toxin or enzyme) that stimulates an immune response in the body (especially the production of antibodies) |
| antigenic determinant, determinant, epitope | The site on the surface of an antigen molecule to which an antibody attaches itself |
| immunofluorescence | (immunology) a technique that uses antibodies linked to a fluorescent dye in order to study antigens in a sample of tissue |
| incompatibility | (immunology) the degree to which the body's immune system will try to reject foreign / foreign material (as transfused blood or transplanted tissue) |
| monovalent | Containing only one kind of antibody |
| polyvalent | Containing several antibodies each capable of counteracting a specific antigen |
| Narrower | immunochemistry, chemoimmunology | The field of chemistry concerned with chemical processes in immunology (such as chemical studies of antigens and antibodies) |
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| immunopathology | The branch of immunology that deals with pathologies of the immune system |
| Broader | medicine, medical specialty | The branches of medical science that deal with nonsurgical techniques |
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| Spanish | inmunología |
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| Catalan | immunologia |
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| Adjectives | allogeneic | denoting or relating to cells or tissues from individuals belonging to the same species but genetically dissimilar / dissimilar (and hence immunologically incompatible) |
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| immunological, immunologic | of or relating to immunology |
| xenogeneic | denoting or relating to cells or tissues from individuals belonging to different species |
| Nouns | immunologist | a medical scientist who specializes in immunology |
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