what does immunosuppression mean?

IMMUNOSUPPRESSION as NOUN

Meaning
- lowering the body’’s normal immune response to invasion by foreign substances
- can be deliberate (as in lowering the immune response to prevent rejection of a transplanted organ) or incidental (as a side effect of radiotherapy or chemotherapy for cancer)
Hypernyms(s) immunosuppression is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
- immunological disorder (what does immunological disorder mean?)