herd immunity (English, noun)
expansion: herd immunity (countable and uncountable, plural herd immunities)
Senses:
topics: epidemiology
medicine
sciences
glosses: The indirect protection against the spread of a contagious disease in a given population caused by the immunity of a significant proportion of the population to that particular disease; the immunity may have been obtained through having survived the infection or through vaccination.
tags: countable
uncountable
Forms:
form: herd immunities
tags: plural