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immunology

/ˌɪm.jʊˈnɒl.ə.dʒi/US/ˌɪm.jəˈnɑː.lə.dʒi/

immunology noun: the branch of medicine that concerns the body's immune system.

Noun

immunology (usually uncountable, plural immunologies)

  1. (usually) The branch of medicine that concerns the body's immune system.
    • 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.1915, Benjamin Abraham Thomas, Applied Immunology

immunology meaning in Tamil, Kannada, Sinhala and Malay

immunology in Tamil

branch of medicine
நோயெதிர்ப்பியல் nōyetirppiyal

immunology in Kannada

ಕಾಪರಿಮೆ

immunology in Sinhala

branch of medicine
ප්රතිශක්තිකරණවේදය pratiśaktikaraṇawēdaya

immunology in Malay

branch of medicine
imunologi
More languagesFewer languages
immunology in Indonesian
imunologi
immunology in Persian
ایمنیشناسی imeni-šenâsi, ایمونولوژی imunoloži
immunology in Vietnamese
miễn dịch học

Forms of immunology

pluralimmunologies

Origin of immunology

From immune + -ology.

Words formed from immunology

Questions about immunology

What does immunology mean?
Immunology means the branch of medicine that concerns the body's immune system.
What is immunology in Tamil?
Immunology in Tamil is நோயெதிர்ப்பியல் (nōyetirppiyal). See Immunology meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is immunology?
Immunology is a noun.
How do you pronounce immunology?
Immunology is pronounced /ˌɪm.jəˈnɑː.lə.dʒi/ (US).
What is the plural of immunology?
The plural of immunology is immunologies.

Words near immunology in the dictionary

  1. immunologically naïve
  2. immunologicals
  3. immunologies
  4. immunologist
  5. immunologists
  6. immunology
  7. immunoluminescence
  8. immunoluminescent
  9. immunoluminometric
  10. immunolysis
  11. immunomagnetic

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: immunology (page history and authors); immunology (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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