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immunosuppression


Definition of immunosuppression

noun

[mass noun] Medicine
  • the partial or complete suppression of the immune response of an individual. It is induced to help the survival of an organ after a transplant operation.

Derivatives

immunosuppressant

noun

immunosuppressed

adjective

immunosuppression in other Oxford dictionaries

Definition of immunosuppression in the US English dictionary
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