| privileged | Invested with a privilege; enjoying a peculiar right, advantage, or immunity. Privileged communication. Witnesses who are not obliged to testify as to certain things, as lawyers in relation to their dealings with their clients, and officers of state as to state secrets; also, by statute, clergymen and physicans are placed in the same category, so far as concerns information received by them professionally. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| privileged site | An anatomic area lacking lymphatic drainage, such as the brain, cornea, and hamster cheek pouch, in which heterologous tumours may grow because the host does not become sensitised. (05 Mar 2000) |
| immunologically privileged sites | Sites where allografts are not readily rejected, probably because these particular areas have poor lymphatic drainage. (05 Mar 2000) |
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