- Amnesty - Disease resistance - Health protection - the diplomatic type handy for foreigners - Health protection – the diplomatic type handy for foreigners - Freedom or exemption from any charge, duty, obligation,
office, tax, imposition, penalty, or service; a particular privilege;
as, the immunities of the free cities of Germany; the immunities of the
clergy. - Freedom; exemption; as, immunity from error.
- A constitutional disease, generally hereditary,
especially manifested by chronic enlargement and cheesy degeneration of
the lymphatic glands, particularly those of the neck, and marked by a
tendency to the development of chronic intractable inflammations of the
skin, mucous membrane, bones, joints, and other parts, and by a
diminution in the power of resistance to disease or injury and the
capacity for recovery. Scrofula is now generally held to be tuberculous
in character, and may develop into general or local tuberculosis
(consumption).
- A piece of DNA, usually circular, functioning as part of
the genetic material of a cell, not integrated with the chromosome and
replicating independently of the chromosome, but transferred, like the
chromosome, to subsequent generations. In bacteria, plasmids often
carry the genes for antibiotic resistance; they are exploited in
genetic engineering as the vehicles for introduction of extraneous DNA
into cells, to alter the genetic makeup of the cell. The cells thus
altered may produce desirable proteins which are extracted and used; in
the case of genetically altered plant cells, the altered cells may grow
into complete plants with changed properties, as for example, increased
resistance to disease.