immunological memory

immunological memory
im·mu·no·log·i·cal memory .im-yən-əl-'äj-i-kəl- also im·mu·no·log·ic memory -'äj-ik- n the capacity of the body's immune system to remember an encounter with an antigen due to the activation of B cells or T cells having specificity for the antigen and to react more swiftly to the antigen by means of these activated cells in a later encounter

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