Salk vaccine


noun
  1. a vaccine that contains three types of inactivated poliomyelitis viruses and induces immunity against the disease.

Origin of Salk vaccine

1
First recorded in 1950–55; named after J. E. Salk

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Cultural definitions for Salk vaccine

Salk vaccine

[ (sawlk, sawk) ]


The first vaccine developed for immunization against poliomyelitis. It is named for Jonas Salk, the twentieth-century American scientist who developed it.

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