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vaccination

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WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. taking a vaccine as a precaution against contracting a disease [syn: inoculation ] the scar left following innoculation with a vaccine

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1800, used by British physician Edward Jenner (1749-1823) for the technique he devised of preventing smallpox by injecting people with the cowpox virus ( variolae vaccinae ), from vaccine (adj.) "pertaining to cows, from cows" (1798), from Latin vaccinus ...

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Vaccination is the administration of antigenic material (a vaccine ) to stimulate an individual's immune system to develop adaptive immunity to a pathogen . Vaccines can prevent or ameliorate morbidity from infection . When a sufficiently large percentage ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Vaccination \Vac`ci*na"tion\, n. The act, art, or practice of vaccinating, or inoculating with the cowpox, in order to prevent or mitigate an attack of smallpox. Cf. Inoculation . Note: In recent use, vaccination sometimes includes inoculation with any ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. inoculation with a vaccine, in order to protect from a particular disease or strain of disease.

Usage examples of vaccination.

The show coordinators also had to be contacted, vaccination records and other paperwork presented, exhibitor passes for the show grounds procured.

I left Atlanta, I was in the middle of my vaccinations for hep A and B.

VaccuGen mumps scandal--the records of E-mail correspondence between the chancellor and Mian Krucevic confirm his full knowledge and support of the vaccination campaign.

And for those at greatest risk of inhalational anthrax, such as those in the room when an anthrax-laden letter is opened, the option of vaccination in addition to antibiotics should be considered.

The School Council amended the vaccination clause, making vaccination a conditio sine qua non for attending school and giving the health officer the whole control of the matter.

And for those at greatest risk of inhalational anthrax, such as those in the room when an anthrax-laden letter is opened, the option of vaccination in addition to antibiotics should be considered.

Besides, except for the heat, flies, septic sores, the khamseen, bad water, dysentery, vaccination, inoculations many and various, digging holes, and a depressing sameness about the scenery, we had, according to some, little to grumble at.

The epidemics of small pox, which had at times decimated whole tribes of Indians, were got rid of by the introduction of vaccination.

It was written in Spanish, a medical report of a seven-year-old girl, one Luz Bexar, healthy and reasonably nourished, good teeth, good eyes, virgo intacta, no intestinal parasites, small scar above right elbow, vaccinations given on the following dates.

And even if vaccination is protective in an animal model, this may not translate into protection for humans.

Yet, peace of mind seems difficult given what's been occupying the national dialogue: viruses, chemicals, cockpit doors, anthrax spores, decontamination teams, water supplies, FBI warnings, vaccinations, explosive devices, subways, fighter jets, gas masks, box cutters.

Long before the Crossings, such plagues as varicella, diphtheria, influenza, rubella, epidemic roseola, morbilli, scarlatina, variola, typhoid, typhus, poliomyelitis, tuberculosis, hepatitis, cytomegalovirus herpes, and gonococcal were eliminated by vaccination .

They were good for one day's use only--one day, because while the band would be accepted by a portable reader such as the PHO would have to record vaccinations, it would show up as a fraud later, when the day's entries were checked.

The most probable scenario is that one of our personnel was exposed to an advanced bacillus, and was himself immune through vaccination, or he could have received germline v-writing, in which case his immune system would be enhanced and highly resistant.

Vaccinations led to HIV, Gulf War Syndrome, and every other illness known to modern man?