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inoculator

American  
[i-nahk-yuh-layt-er] / ɪˈnɑk jəˌleɪt ər /

noun

  • inoculators
    plural
  1. a person, such as a lab technician or healthcare worker, who inoculates people or animals.

  2. 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

Mr Gootes," I said impressively, "I am the man who applied the inoculator to this grass.

From Greener Than You Think by Ward Moore

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

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

His experiments show nothing new; they merely furnish a recent confirmation of the well-known fact, familiar to the old inoculators, that inoculated small-pox is sometimes exceedingly mild in a series of cases.

From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various

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