INOCULATING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does inoculating mean? 

• INOCULATING (noun)
  The noun INOCULATING has 1 sense:

1. the act of protecting against disease by introducing a vaccine into the body to induce immunity

  Familiarity information: INOCULATING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INOCULATING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of protecting against disease by introducing a vaccine into the body to induce immunity

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

inoculating; vaccinating

Context example:

doctors examined the recruits but nurses did the inoculating

Hypernyms ("inoculating" is a kind of...):

protection (the activity of protecting someone or something)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "inoculating"):

ring vaccination (administering vaccine only to people in close contact with an isolated infected patient; prevents the spread of a highly infectious disease by surrounding the patient with a ring of immunization)

variolation; variolization (the obsolete process of inoculating a susceptible person with material taken from a vesicle of a person who has smallpox)

Derivation:

inoculate (perform vaccinations or produce immunity in by inoculation)

 Context examples 

Inoculating an individual with either killed or live agents to prevent contraction of a disease.

(Immunization, NCI Thesaurus)