immunologicaladj.

1909 Science 12 Feb. 242/1 To-day biology, clinical and legal medicine, and physiological chemistry are using immunological methods to solve important problems.

1953 R. W. Fairbrother Text-bk. Bacteriol. (ed. 7) viii. 91 These are questions of great epidemiological and immunological importance.

1973 J. Goodfield Courier to Peking x. 126 The question was a highly technical one and understanding it demanded a thorough background in immunological theory.

2003 Guardian 18 Jan. i. 22/2 Diagnosis of physical illness is usually made fairly precisely by a combination of histological (tissue), biochemical or immunological tests.

1911 Proc. Royal Soc. B. 84 390 The elective material for correlation of the various immunological states is often to be obtained with clinical normals under exposure and cases of early and slight involvements.

1960 New Biol. 31 103 It seems..that any potentially antigenic material which comes into contact with the cells during the stage of immunological immaturity fails subsequently to cause antibody formation.

1990 H. Chadwick in D. Brown Newman 65 The immunological system of the Church of England was rejecting Newman as an alien intruder.

2005 Fashion (Canada) Oct. 96/1 Cystic acne is an immunological problem, an overreaction of the immune system to the clogged follicle.