inoculation
IPA: ɪnɑkjʌɫˈeɪʃʌn
noun
- (immunology) The introduction of an antigenic substance or vaccine into the body to produce immunity to a specific disease.
- (microbiology) The introduction of a microorganism into a culture medium.
- The insertion of the buds of one plant into another; grafting.
- An inoculum; that which is inoculated.
- Synonym of prebunking
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Examples of "inoculation" in Sentences
- The act of supplying the young plants with these is called inoculation, and may be done in the following ways:
- In her poem, inoculation is performed by Oberon who gathers all kinds of magical ingredients to ease her daughter Marias recovery.
- At the same time an inoculation from the charge of “these extremist GOP crazies†may help prevent a total GOP bleed out for 2006.
- When however the same inoculation is carried out on a rabbit or a guinea-pig that has been previously vaccinated against anthrax, a very different picture results.
- This type of intervention is called inoculation because it may be analogous to the process whereby antibodies are induced in response to injections of mildly virulant toxins.
- In my part of London, we have live smallpox measles and TB scares on a regular basis, because so many parents have been convinced that inoculation is bad for kids that they won't get them their jabs.
- We will see that the serum for inoculation comes from the right part; and not until every microbe of German kultur is eradicated from his blood will we touch, handle, or have any dealings with the Hun.
- But that the reader may be able to judge whether the English or those who differ from them in opinion are in the right, here follows the history of the famed inoculation, which is mentioned with so much dread in France.
- Turks in Constantinople and Smyrna succeeded in inoculating patients against smallpox, he led a public campaign to do the same in Boston (a campaign for which he was much vilified by those who called inoculation the "work of the Devil," merely because of its Islamic origin).
- John McCain has said he'll be taking a tougher line against Barack Obama and his associates, and reporter Scott Shane's front-page piece in Saturday's New York Times on the "sporadic" ties between Obama and William Ayers, a founder of the 1960s domestic terrorist group Weather Underground, serves as a 2,100-word inoculation, a long investigative piece that does little in the way of actual investigating, providing the appearance of due diligence while exonerating Obama.
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