Therapeutic or Preventive Procedure
artificial immunosuppression
Subclass of:
Immunologic Techniques; Immunotherapy
Definitions related to therapeutic immunosuppression:
  • (immunosuppression) Therapy used to decrease the body's immune response, such as drugs given to prevent transplant rejection.
    NCI Dictionary of Cancer Terms
    U.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
  • (immunosuppression therapy) Deliberate prevention or diminution of the host's immune response. It may be nonspecific as in the administration of immunosuppressive agents (drugs or radiation) or by lymphocyte depletion or may be specific as in desensitization or the simultaneous administration of antigen and immunosuppressive drugs.
    NLM Medical Subject Headings
    U.S. National Library of Medicine, 2025
  • (artificial immunosuppression) Deliberate suppression of immune system function for experimental or therapeutic purposes.
    CRISP Thesaurus
    National Institutes of Health, 2006
  • Immunosuppression after solid organ transplantation is complex. Over the past 50 years, the medical community has witnessed great advances in the care of patients receiving organ transplants.
    Medscape
    WebMD, 2025
  • Immunosuppression, Suppression of immunity with drugs, usually to prevent rejection of an organ transplant. Its aim is to allow the recipient to accept the organ permanently with no unpleasant side effects. In some cases the dosage can be reduced or even stopped without causing rejection. Other...
    Encyclopedia Britannica
    Encyclopedia Britannica, Inc., 2025
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