vaccine
IPA: væksˈin
noun
- (immunology)
- A substance given to stimulate a body's production of antibodies and provide immunity against a disease without causing the disease itself in the treatment, prepared from the agent that causes the disease (or a derivative of it; or a related, also effective, but safer disease), or a synthetic substitute; also, a dose of such a substance.
- The process of vaccination; immunization, inoculation.
- (historical) material taken from cowpox pustules used for vaccination against smallpox.
- (also medicine, obsolete) The disease cowpox, especially as a source of material for vaccination against smallpox.
- (figuratively)
- Something defensive or protective in nature, like a vaccine (sense 1.1).
- (computing) A software program which protects computers against, or detects and neutralizes, computer viruses and other types of malware; an antivirus.
verb
- (transitive, archaic) Synonym of vaccinate (“to treat (a person or an animal) with a vaccine to produce immunity against a disease”)
adjective
- (historical)
- (medicine) Of, pertaining to, caused by, or characteristic of cowpox.
- (immunology) Of or pertaining to cowpox as a source of material for vaccination against smallpox; also, of or pertaining to such material used for vaccination.
- (archaic) Of, pertaining to, or derived from cattle.
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Examples of "vaccine" in Sentences
- There is no vaccine for a superbug.
- A killed virus vaccine immunizes the body.
- Hookworm vaccine is a vaccine against hookworm.
- The evolving nature of the virus complicates vaccine planning.
- The smallpox vaccine was the first successful vaccine to be developed.
- The Plowright vaccine was developed to the RBOK of the rinderpest virus.
- The first batch of swine flu vaccine arrived in the country in September.
- The vaccine is based on the vaccinia virus, a cousin of the smallpox virus.
- To make the vaccine, the attenuated virus is grown in chicken eggs as before.
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