vaccinia
IPA: vʌtʃˈiniʌ
noun
- (medicine) An infection of cowpox.
- (by extension) The virus which causes this infection.
Examples of "vaccinia" in Sentences
- Vulnerability to live vaccinia virus.
- One approach has been to use vaccinia.
- However, vaccinia is not a harmless virus.
- Vaccinia was not known to be a virus at that time.
- Thus, the vaccinia virus avoids the immune system.
- He also made three moulages of vaccinia, the cowpox.
- A culture of vesicular fluid will grow vaccinia virus.
- And the phrase Vaccinia is derived from the word for Cow.
- Rifampicin has some effectiveness against vaccinia virus.
- The vaccine is based on the vaccinia virus, a cousin of the smallpox virus.