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immunosuppressed

Definitions

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  • adjective Affected by immunosuppression

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  • adjective of persons whose immune response is inadequate

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Examples

  • The test probably provided no clinically useful information unless the patient was immunosuppressed.

    $125 K of premium medicine, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

  • At one point, HPV, human papillomavirus, emerged in a particularly aggressive form because she was immunosuppressed; the lesions had to be surgically excised in an operating room instead of via office laser because the virus was in the vaginal wall and on the cervix.

    After the Diagnosis MD Julian Seifter 2010

  • Some people are more susceptible than others those who are ill or immunosuppressed get warts all the time.

    Simple Skin Beauty Ellen Marmur 2009

  • But I think the reason we haven't had more deaths is because it hasn't reached a larger immunosuppressed population hospitals or nursing care facilities.

    Swine flu 2009

  • Chemotherapy which left her bald, immunosuppressed, nauseated and fatigued.

    Go read this Professor in Training 2009

  • Some people are more susceptible than others those who are ill or immunosuppressed get warts all the time.

    Simple Skin Beauty Ellen Marmur 2009

  • Those in whom immunity fails to develop, those too young to be vaccinated, those who have immune deficits like hypogammaglobulinemia, and those who are immunosuppressed from chemotherapy or HIV are all at risk from unvaccinated children in their schools and neighborhoods.

    this won't hurt a bit 2009

  • Some people are more susceptible than others those who are ill or immunosuppressed get warts all the time.

    Simple Skin Beauty Ellen Marmur 2009

  • For example, spending a longer period of time in crowded and overheated houses during prolonged cold periods could affect the transmission of viral infections, especially among the elderly, the young, and the physiologically vulnerable (e.g., individuals who are immunosuppressed due to the presence of other diseases or medication).

    Potential impacts of direct mechanisms of climate change on human health in the Arctic 2009

  • And I believe that the priority for this vaccine are pregnant women, immunosuppressed patients cancer, AIDS, elderly, children, and health care workers.

    Will detainees get H1N1 shots before American soldiers? 2009

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