immunity gap (English, noun)
expansion: immunity gap (plural immunity gaps)
Senses:
topics: biology
medicine
natural-sciences
pathology
sciences
veterinary
zoology
glosses: The time period during which a young mammal no longer receives effective immunity to diseases from antibodies in its mother's milk but its own immune system is not fully developed.
topics: epidemiology
medicine
sciences
glosses: The time period between when an individual's or a population's immunity to a virus has waned (due to normal decrease in immune response over time or to the development of a new strain of the virus) and before a new vaccine can be given to boost immunity.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see immunity, gap.
Forms:
form: immunity gaps
tags: plural