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VARIOLATION
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Dictionary entry overview: What does variolation mean?
• VARIOLATION (noun)
The noun VARIOLATION has 1 sense:
1. the obsolete process of inoculating a susceptible person with material taken from a vesicle of a person who has smallpox
Familiarity information: VARIOLATION used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The obsolete process of inoculating a susceptible person with material taken from a vesicle of a person who has smallpox
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Synonyms:
variolation; variolization
Hypernyms ("variolation" is a kind of...):
inoculating; vaccinating (the act of protecting against disease by introducing a vaccine into the body to induce immunity)
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