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vaccination

[vak-suh-ney-shuh n]
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noun Medicine/Medical.
  1. the act or practice of vaccinating; inoculation with vaccine.
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Origin of vaccination

1800–10; vaccine (adj.) + -ation
Related formsan·ti·vac·ci·na·tion, adjectivenon·vac·ci·na·tion, nounpost·vac·ci·na·tion, adjectivepre·vac·ci·na·tion, nounpro·vac·ci·na·tion, adjectivere·vac·ci·na·tion, noun
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Historical Examples

  • Revaccination is necessary every eighth year if smallpox reappears.

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    Austin O'Malley

  • To boot, there is the occasional windfall of an epidemic, with its panic and rush for revaccination.

  • The fact is, contrary to the notions of the last generation, that success in revaccination is the rule, not the exception.

British Dictionary definitions for revaccination

vaccination

noun
  1. the act of vaccinating
  2. the scar left following inoculation with a vaccine
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Word Origin and History for revaccination

vaccination

n.

1803, used by British physician Edward Jenner (1749-1823) for the technique he devised of preventing smallpox by injecting people with the cowpox virus (variolae vaccinae), from vaccine (adj.) "pertaining to cows, from cows" (1798), from Latin 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" [OED].

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revaccination in Medicine

revaccination

(rē′văk-sə-nā′shən)
n.
  1. Vaccination of a person previously vaccinated.
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vaccination

(văk′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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revaccination in Science

vaccination

[văk′sə-nā′shən]
  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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revaccination in Culture

vaccination

[(vak-suh-nay-shuhn)]

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

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