VARIOLIZATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does variolization mean? 

• VARIOLIZATION (noun)
  The noun VARIOLIZATION 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: VARIOLIZATION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• VARIOLIZATION (noun)

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 ("variolization" is a kind of...):

inoculating; vaccinating (the act of protecting against disease by introducing a vaccine into the body to induce immunity)