inoculator
Americannoun
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inoculators
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a person, such as a lab technician or healthcare worker, who inoculates people or animals.
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an instrument or piece of equipment used for inoculation.
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Aseefa’s inoculator was her mother, the late Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, assassinated in 2007.
From Time ● Sep. 27, 2012
Before he finally received his degree magna cum laude, he had worked as a druggist, soda jerk, janitor and hog inoculator.
From Time Magazine Archive
Before occupying ourselves with its capacities as an inoculator, let us learn how its larva lives in the invaded cell.
From The Mason-Bees by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos
The sixth perpetuated its early admiration of the great small-pox inoculator, Boylston; and the last was named—for a hotel.
From The Bay State Monthly — Volume 2, No. 5, February, 1885 by Various
But dissensions sprang up, chiefly through the conduct of the resident inoculator recommending practices contrary to the printed regulations of the society, and it was virtually dissolved in 1806.
From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 14 by Various
There are numerous accounts of North African, Arabian, and East Asian inoculators as well.
From Slate ● Sep. 4, 2023
The surviving descriptions are often vague and tell us little about the inoculators or inoculation recipients beyond whether the procedure was successful and the ideal time to perform it, when children were young.
From Slate ● Sep. 4, 2023
Peter Levine, associate dean for research at the Jonathan M. Tisch College of Civic Life at Tufts, says that communities that bond to promote pro-social behavior can be powerful inoculators for young people.
From New York Times ● Apr. 5, 2017
Though 400 inoculators have been at work since November, they reached only 300,000 out of 4,000,000 people in five months.
From Time Magazine Archive
The old inoculators generally made an incision through the whole thickness of the skin, so that a pellet of subcutaneous fat rolled up into the little wound.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
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