immunosuppressive
immunosuppressive adjective: having the capability to suppress the immune system, capable of immunosuppression.
Adjective
immunosuppressive (comparative more immunosuppressive, superlative most immunosuppressive)
- Having the capability to suppress the immune system, capable of immunosuppression.
- It is predictable that some of these infections occur in individuals immunocompromised by malnutrition or underlying disease (notably cancer or AIDS) or by immunosuppressive therapy.2013, Robert H. Rubin, Lowell S. Young, Clinical Approach to Infection in the Compromised Host, →ISBN, page 275
Noun
immunosuppressive (plural immunosuppressives)
- An agent which is capable of immunosuppression.
- Synonyms:
- immunosuppressor, immunosuppressant
immunosuppressive meaning in Tamil
immunosuppressive in Tamil
- தடுப்பாற்றடக்கு
Synonyms of immunosuppressive
Forms of immunosuppressive
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | more immunosuppressive |
| superlative | most immunosuppressive |
| Noun | |
| plural | immunosuppressives |
Origin of immunosuppressive
From immuno- + suppressive.
Words formed from immunosuppressive
Words that rhyme with immunosuppressive
- incessive
- progressive
- aggressive
- ingressive
- oppressive
- depressive
- egressive
- essive
- expressive
- impressive
- obsessive
- possessive
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- recessive
- successive
- accessive
- caressive
- concessive
- degressive
- digressive
- double possessive
- passive-aggressive
- pressive
- regressive
- retrogressive
- transgressive
- abessive
- addressive
- adessive
- alloaggressive
- allosuppressive
- antessive
- antidepressive
- antiexpressive
- antioppressive
- antiprogressive
- antirepressive
- anxiodepressive
- atheroprogressive
- atherosuppressive
- autogressive
- autoregressive
- autorepressive
- brogressive
- cardiodepressive
- cardiosuppressive
- compressive
- concrescive
- confessive
- congressive
- corepressive
- crescive
- decompressive
- derepressive
- dispossessive
- effervescive
- excessive
- exessive
- fauxgressive
- fibrosuppressive
- future perfect progressive
Questions about immunosuppressive
- What does immunosuppressive mean?
- Immunosuppressive means having the capability to suppress the immune system, capable of immunosuppression.
- What is immunosuppressive in Tamil?
- Immunosuppressive in Tamil is தடுப்பாற்றடக்கு. See Immunosuppressive meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is immunosuppressive?
- Immunosuppressive can be an adjective or a noun.
Words near immunosuppressive in the dictionary
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