Organ or Tissue Function
immunologic memory
Subclass of:
Adaptive Immunity
Definitions related to immunologic memory:
  • Altered state of immunologic responsiveness resulting from initial contact with antigen, which enables the individual to produce antibodies more rapidly and in greater quantity in response to secondary antigenic stimulus.
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    National Institutes of Health, 2006
  • The altered state of immunologic responsiveness resulting from initial contact with antigen, which enables the individual to produce antibodies more rapidly and in greater quantity in response to secondary antigenic stimulus.
    NLM Medical Subject Headings
    U.S. National Library of Medicine, 2021
  • (anamnestic reaction) Renewed rapid production of an antibody on the second (or subsequent) encounter with the same antigen.
    CRISP Thesaurus
    National Institutes of Health, 2006
  • Anamnesis, a recalling to mind, or reminiscence. Anamnesis is often used as a narrative technique in fiction and poetry as well as in memoirs and autobiographies. A notable example is Marcel Proust's anamnesis brought on by the taste of a madeleine in the first volume of Remembrance of Things Past...
    Encyclopedia Britannica
    Encyclopedia Britannica, Inc., 2020
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