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vac⋅ci⋅na⋅tion

  [vak-suh-ney-shuhn]
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–noun Medicine/Medical.
the act or practice of vaccinating; inoculation with vaccine.
Origin:
1800–10; vaccine (adj.) + -ation
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vac·ci·na·tion   (vāk'sə-nā'shən)   
n.  

  1. Inoculation with a vaccine in order to protect against a particular disease.

  2. A scar left on the skin by vaccinating.

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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Cultural Dictionary

vaccination [(vak-suh-nay-shuhn)]

Inoculation with a vaccine to produce immunity to a particular infectious disease.

The American Heritage® New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition
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Word Origin & History

vaccination 
1803, used by British physician Edward Jenner for the technique he devised of preventing smallpox by injecting people with the cowpox virus (variolæ vaccinæ), from vaccine (adj.) "pertaining to cows, from cows" (1798), from L. vaccinus "from cows," from vacca "cow" (bos being originally "ox," "a loan word from a rural dialect" according to Buck, who cites Umbrian bue). "The use of the term for diseases other than smallpox is due to Pasteur (Trans. 7th Session Internat. Med. Congr. (1881) I.90)" [OED]. The noun vaccine "matter used in vaccination" is recorded from 1846; vaccinate is an 1803 coinage.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Medical Dictionary

Main Entry: vac·ci·na·tion
Pronunciation: "vak-s&-'nA-sh&n
Function: noun
1 : the introduction into humans or domesticanimals of microorganisms that have previously been treated to make them harmless for the purpose of inducing the development of immunity vaccination> <vaccination againstsmallpox> <vaccination for whooping cough>
2 : the scar left by vaccinating
Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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Medical Dictionary

vaccination vac·ci·na·tion (vāk'sə-nā'shən)
n.

  1. Inoculation with a vaccine in order to protect against a particular disease.

  2. A scar left on the skin by vaccinating.

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