immunologically

English

Etymology

From immunological +‎ -ly.

Adverb

immunologically (comparative more immunologically, superlative most immunologically)

1. (immunology) Using immunological methods.
   • 1992, Douglas MacLean, quoting Marc Lappé, “Ethics and Biological Defense Research”, in Raymond A[llan] Zilinskas, editor, The Microbiologist and Biological Defense Research: Ethics, Politics, and International Security (Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences; 666), New York, N.Y.: The New York Academy of Sciences, →ISBN, part II (Ethics of Biological Defense Research), page 112:

     This kind of warfare [i.e., biological] would have us devouring the world’s children in a manner of speaking and those who are immunologically impaired, presuming we were going to immunize our own population but not those of the antagonist. Thus we would be conducting warfare which by definition would be indiscriminate rather than selective. We would lose control of the evolution of the bacteria that we would be releasing in the multitrillions.

Derived terms

• immunologically naïve

Translations

using immunological methods

• Italian: immunologicamente (it)
• Portuguese: imunologicamente