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INOCULATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does inoculation mean? 

INOCULATION (noun)
  The noun INOCULATION has 1 sense:

1. taking a vaccine as a precaution against contracting a diseaseplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


INOCULATION (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Taking a vaccine as a precaution against contracting a disease

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

inoculation; vaccination

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

immunisation; immunization (the act of making immune (especially by inoculation))

Derivation:

inoculate (perform vaccinations or produce immunity in by inoculation)


 Context examples 


This agent adsorbs and precipitates protein antigens in solution; the resulting precipitate improves vaccine immunogenicity by facilitating the slow release of antigen from the vaccine depot formed at the site of inoculation.

(Aluminum Sulfate Anhydrous, NCI Thesaurus)

Early yaws includes primary and secondary stages of yaws, endemic tropical treponemal nonvenereal infection: development of initial lesion at inoculation site followed by widespread dissemination of treponemes and generalized secondary granulomatous lesions that may relapse repeatedly.

(Early Yaws, NCI Thesaurus)



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