immunology

Noun
  1. The branch of medical science that studies the body's immune system (synset 106061073)
    associated with:
    • immunofluorescence - (immunology) a technique that uses antibodies linked to a fluorescent dye in order to study antigens in a sample of tissue
    • affinity - (immunology) the attraction between an antigen and an antibody
    • incompatibility - (immunology) the degree to which the body's immune system will try to reject foreign material (as transfused blood or transplanted tissue)
    • 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
    • monovalent - containing only one kind of antibody
    • polyvalent - containing several antibodies each capable of counteracting a specific antigen
    is a type of: medical specialty, medicine - the branches of medical science that deal with nonsurgical techniques
    subtypes:
    • chemoimmunology, immunochemistry - the field of chemistry concerned with chemical processes in immunology (such as chemical studies of antigens and antibodies)
    • immunopathology - the branch of immunology that deals with pathologies of the immune system

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