Inoculation
[ɪ,nɒkjʊ'leɪʃn] or [ɪˌnɒkju'leɪʃn]
Definition
(noun.) taking a vaccine as a precaution against contracting a disease.
Edited by Gertrude--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The act or art of inoculating trees or plants.
(n.) The act or practice of communicating a disease to a person in health, by inserting contagious matter in his skin or flesh.
(n.) Fig.: The communication of principles, especially false principles, to the mind.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Budding.[2]. Vaccination.
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Examples
- The use of the weakened inoculation had developed it s resistance to infection. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- She wanted to be alone, to know this strange, sharp inoculation that had changed the whole temper of her blood. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- I long regretted him bitterly, and still regret that I had not given it to him by inoculation. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- Pasteur's preventive inoculation for anthrax was tested under dramatic circumstances at Melun in June, 1881. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Pasteur was racked with fears alternating w ith hopes, his anxiety growing more intense as the virulence of the inoculations increased. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Hens that had not had chicken cholera could be rendered immune by a series of attenuated inoculations gradually increasing in strength. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- The inoculations of th e attenuated virus began at once. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- A hen that chanced to be inoculated with the weakened virus developed the diseas e, but, after a time, recovered (much as patients after the old-time small pox inoculations). Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Pasteur obtained in inoculations of graded virulence, which could be adm inistered hypodermically, a means of prophylaxis after bites. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
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