immunology

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Etymology

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From immune +‎ -ology.

Noun

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immunology (usually uncountable, plural immunologies)

  1. (medicine) The branch of medicine that concerns the body's immune system.
    • 1915, Benjamin Abraham Thomas, Applied Immunology:
      Obviously, licentiates to practice medicine should receive instruction of a definite and practical nature in this important branch of modern medicine, or immunology should receive a place in the classification of specialties, a fact which the importance of the subject may command.

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