POLIOVIRUS VACCINE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does poliovirus vaccine mean? 

• POLIOVIRUS VACCINE (noun)
  The noun POLIOVIRUS VACCINE has 1 sense:

1. vaccine prepared from poliovirus to provide immunity to poliomyelitis

  Familiarity information: POLIOVIRUS VACCINE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• POLIOVIRUS VACCINE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Vaccine prepared from poliovirus to provide immunity to poliomyelitis

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("poliovirus vaccine" is a kind of...):

vaccine; vaccinum (immunogen consisting of a suspension of weakened or dead pathogenic cells injected in order to stimulate the production of antibodies)

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

OPV; oral poliovirus vaccine; Sabin vaccine; TOPV; trivalent live oral poliomyelitis vaccine (an oral vaccine (containing live but weakened poliovirus) that is given to provide immunity to poliomyelitis)

IPV; Salk vaccine (a poliovirus vaccine consisting of inactivated polio virus that is injected subcutaneously to provide immunity to poliomyelitis)

 Context examples 

A unit of potency of poliovirus vaccine expressed as a number of D antigen units per one milliliter of vaccine formulation.

(D Antigen Unit per Milliliter, NCI Thesaurus)

A unit of potency of poliovirus vaccine used for poliomyelitis prevention.

(D Antigen Unit, NCI Thesaurus)

Upon intramuscular vaccination, inactivated poliovirus vaccine (IPV) activates the immune system to develop antibodies against polioviruses.

(Inactivated Poliovirus Vaccine, NCI Thesaurus)