Immune vs Prevented - What's the difference?
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Exempt; not subject to.
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Protected by inoculation, or due to innate resistance to pathogens.
(by extension) Not vulnerable.
(medicine) Of or pertaining to the immune system.
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, title= (epidemiology) A person who is not susceptible to infection by a particular disease
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, passage=Susceptibles effectively exposed to cases become cases in the next time period; cases recovering from the infection accumulate as immunes .}}
To make immune.
* (Thomas Hardy)
* 1905 , American Veterinary Medical Association, Journal (volume 29, page 42)
(prevent)
To stop; to keep (from happening).
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* 1897 , Henry James, What Maisie Knew :
(obsolete) To come before; to precede.
* Bible, 1 Thess. iv. 15
* Book of Common Prayer
* Prior
(obsolete) To outdo, surpass.
* 1596 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , IV.i:
(obsolete) To be beforehand with; to anticipate.
* Alexander Pope
As verbs the difference between immune and prevented
is that immune is to make immune while prevented is (prevent).As an adjective immune
is exempt; not subject to.As a noun immune
is (epidemiology) a person who is not susceptible to infection by a particular disease.immune
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Adjective
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Antonyms
* susceptible * vulnerableDerived terms
* autoimmuneNoun
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Coordinate terms
* infective * susceptibleVerb
(immun)- In the seventies those who met me did not know / Of the vision / That immuned me from the chillings of mis-prision
- The utilization of such milk will, however, necessitate an adaptable milk preservation method, through which the immuning agents will not be destroyed or diminished.
prevented
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Verb
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Alternative forms
* (archaic)Verb
(en verb)- I brushed my teeth to prevent them from going yellow.
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- ‘I think you must be mad, and she shall not have a glimpse of it while I'm here to prevent !’
- We which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep.
- We pray thee that thy grace may always prevent and follow us.
- Then had I come, preventing Sheba's queen.
- With that he put his spurres vnto his steed, / With speare in rest, and toward him did fare, / Like shaft out of a bow preuenting speed.
- their ready guilt preventing thy commands