vaccination

[vak-suh-ney-shuh n]

noun Medicine/Medical.

the act or practice of vaccinating; inoculation with vaccine.

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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Examples from the Web for revaccination

Historical Examples of revaccination

Revaccination is necessary every eighth year if smallpox reappears.
The Ethics of Medical Homicide and Mutilation
Austin O'Malley
To boot, there is the occasional windfall of an epidemic, with its panic and rush for revaccination.
The Doctor's Dilemma: Preface on Doctors
George Bernard Shaw
The fact is, contrary to the notions of the last generation, that success in revaccination is the rule, not the exception.
A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I
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British Dictionary definitions for revaccination

vaccination

noun

the act of vaccinating

the scar left following inoculation with a vaccine

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Word Origin and History for revaccination

vaccination

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].

revaccination in Medicine