pasteurism

/ (ˈpæstəˌrɪzəm, -stjə-, ˈpɑː-) /

noun med

a method of securing immunity from rabies in a person who has been bitten by a rabid animal, by daily injections of progressively more virulent suspensions of the infected spinal cord of a rabbit that died of rabies

a similar method of treating patients with other viral infections by the serial injection of progressively more virulent suspensions of the causative virus

Words nearby pasteurism

pasteurella multocida, pasteurella pestis, pasteurella pseudotuberculosis, pasteurella tularensis, pasteurellosis, pasteurism, pasteurization, pasteurize, pasteurizer, pasticcio, pastiche

Also called: Pasteur treatment

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Pasteurism, pas-tėr′izm, n. the method of inoculation with the attenuated virus of certain diseases, esp.
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