premunityn.
/ˌpriːˈmjuːnᵻti/, U.S. /priˈmjunədi/ Medicine and Veterinary Medicine.
= premunition n. 3.
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the world > health and disease > [noun] > good health > resistance to disease > immunity
immunitya1650
unsusceptibility1805
premunition1925
premunity1928
immunocompetence1966
1928 Trans. Royal Soc. Trop. Med. & Hygiene 22 140 In Uganda..experience indicates that ‘premunity’, having once been established, is extremely difficult to disturb.
1968 Jrnl. Appl. Ecol. 5 318 The bulk of the Isingiro cattle, kept on the summits of the highlands, were seldom examined before the advent of drug therapy and it is probable that many were in a condition of premunity.
1995 Jrnl. S. Afr. Vet. Assoc. 66 157 Sterilisation of the infection is not recommended in endemic areas; a more rational approach would be to allow a state of premunity to develop in dogs at risk to repeated infections.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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n.1928- training camp
- training centre
- training class
- training college
- training course
- training credit
- training day
- training department
- training dinner
- training exercise
- training facility
- training field
- training film
- training flight
- training groom
- training ground
- training hall
- training halter
- training home
- training institute
- training institution
- training instructor
- training level
- training manual
- training method