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vaccine
[ vak-seenor, especially British, vak-seen, -sin ]
noun
- any preventive preparation used to stimulate the body’s immune response against a specific disease, using either messenger RNA or killed or weakened bacteria or viruses to prepare the body to recognize a disease and produce antibodies.
- (no longer in technical use) the virus of cowpox, used in vaccination, obtained from pox vesicles of a cow or person.
- a software program that helps to protect against computer viruses, as by detecting them and warning the user.
adjective
- of or relating to vaccination.
- of or relating to vaccinia.
- of, relating to, or derived from cows.
vaccine
/ ˈvæksiːn /
noun
- a suspension of dead, attenuated, or otherwise modified microorganisms (viruses, bacteria, or rickettsiae) for inoculation to produce immunity to a disease by stimulating the production of antibodies
- (originally) a preparation of the virus of cowpox taken from infected cows and inoculated in humans to produce immunity to smallpox
- modifier of or relating to vaccination or vaccinia
- computing a piece of software designed to detect and remove computer viruses from a system
vaccine
/ văk-sēn′ /
- A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen, such as a bacterium or virus, or of a portion of the pathogen's structure, that stimulates immune cells to recognize and attack it, especially through antibody production. Most vaccines are given orally or by intramuscular or subcutaneous injection.
- See Note at Jenner
vaccine
- A substance prepared from dead or living microorganisms that is introduced into the body through inoculation . The vaccine causes the development of antibodies , which produce immunity to the disease caused by the microorganism.
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- provac·cine adjective
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Word History and Origins
Origin of vaccine1
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Example Sentences
The vaccine is delivered through a “carrier virus” that causes a common cold in chimpanzees but does not affect humans.
The need for an Ebola vaccine in West Africa has never been greater.
With Ebola still raging in West Africa, the race to find a vaccine is heating up.
On average, the vaccine has an efficacy of about 60 percent.
With enough changing of the influenza RNA over time, the vaccine no longer provokes the “right” immune response.
British house of commons voted Dr. Jenner 10,000 for his discovery of the vaccine inoculation.
We have two kinds of vaccines already, the cow-pox vaccine and the killed cultures of bacteria introduced by Wright.
The final proof was the cure of the patient by an autogenous vaccine made of the offending microbe.
It would be better to leave off the word vaccine as applied to them and call them what they are, pollen extracts.
Do we not witness in the newly formed vaccine vesicle, an increase of the specific force and principle?
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