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Word definitions in Wikipedia
A vaccine is a biological preparation that provides active acquired immunity to a particular disease . A vaccine typically contains an agent that resembles a disease-causing micro-organism and is often made from weakened or killed forms of the microbe, ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE effective ▪ That, if it ever happens, will require effective vaccines , and those are years away. ▪ What the country, the world needed was a safe 217 and effective vaccine . ▪ They are eagerly awaited, for even ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Vaccine \Vac"cine\ (v[a^]k"s[imac]n or v[a^]k"s[i^]n; 277), a. [L. vaccinus, fr. vacca a cow; cf. Skr. v[=a ,c] to bellow, to groan.] Of or pertaining to cows; pertaining to, derived from, or caused by, vaccinia; as, vaccine virus; the vaccine disease. ...
Usage examples of vaccine.
The vaccine you took, the poisons, the adjuvants, they would have kept away, pushed down, your need for sex.
The plague vaccine was found to be ineffective against aerosol dissemination in animal studies.
The destruction of the Avion vaccine shipment bound for Dakru ten years ago.
The only files accessed were for the Avion vaccine negotiations and communications ten years ago.
Yet the only files touched just happened to involve the Avion to Dakru vaccine shipment.
Why, after all these years would someone want the Avion vaccine files?
Then there was the vaccine they developed against the common coldthe reason why that affliction has been absolutely stamped out in the world today, for it was one of the things that Conant, the bank president, got hold of.
Then there was the vaccine they developed against the common cold-the reason why that affliction has been absolutely stamped out in the world today, for it was one of the things that Conant, the bank president, got hold of.
Andrea to coordinate with epidemiologists and public relations on the best strategy for distributing a vaccine.
The vaccine was basically weakened tubercle bacilli which were injected into the skin, then followed by injections of various drugs such as ethambutol, rifampicin, thiacetazone, and poyrazinamide, and sometimes streptomycin, isioniazid, and para-aminosalicylic acid.
Both the vaccine and the immune globulin required refrigeration, but for a journey of less than 48 hours a thermos with ice would be sufficient.
He left the vaccine and the immune globulin in the refrigerator, after assuring himself that the boy knew better than to eat it.
Government Circuit House in Junagadh, the rabies vaccine and the vial of immune globulin, which Dr Daruwalla had forgotten, remained in the lobby refrigerator.
There is no vaccine for mustard or Lewisite, and there is no antidote for mustard agents.
Fritz Voekl was sending German medical teams into Kosovo armed with an experimental new mumps vaccine.