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inoculation

[ ih-nok-yuh-ley-shuhn ]

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noun

inoculation

/ ĭ-nŏk′yə-lā′shən /

The introduction of a serum, a vaccine, or an antigenic substance into the body of a person or an animal, especially as a means to produce or boost immunity to a specific disease.
The introduction of a microorganism or an agent of disease into an host organism or a growth medium.

inoculation

The introduction of an antigen into the body, usually by injection, in order to stimulate the production of antibodies to produce immunity to an infectious disease . ( See immunization .)

1400–50; late Middle English < Latin inoculātiōn- (stem of inoculātiō ) an engrafting. See inoculate, -ion

Romney says this policy is aimed at helping middle-income Americans, but there is clearly an element of self-inoculation here.

Shouting now is also an inoculation against embarrassment later.

Instead, Kennedy took the punch-line for himself and applied the loud laughs he earned as an inoculation against a poisonous idea.

Tubercle bacilli are nearly always present, although animal inoculation may be necessary to detect them.

It has been shown that the quantity of opsonins in the blood can be greatly increased by inoculation with dead bacteria.

British house of commons voted Dr. Jenner 10,000 for his discovery of the vaccine inoculation.

Probably the general introduction of inoculation first occasioned the discovery.

In some other points of view, the inoculation of this disease appears preferable to the variolous inoculation.

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