premune

English

Adjective

premune (not comparable)

1. (medicine) Immune to a disease through having had it before.
   • 1937, Annual Departmental Reports of the Straits Settlements..., page 894:

     […] take special precautions to protect the animals from those ordinary tropical protozoal diseases to which the indigenous cattle are premune.

   • 1958, Great Britain. Colonial Office, Tanganyika Under United Kingdom Administration, page 145:

     This was an investigation of the smallest protective dose of chloroquine amongst the premune Bantu in Tanganyika.

   • 2014, Julius P. Kreier, Malaria: Immunology and Immunization, page 141:

     It need not in fact be assumed that the premune state is implemented by immune mechanisms different from those induced by nonliving antigens.

Related terms

• premunition
• premunity

Spanish

Verb

premune

1. inflection of premunir:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative