vaccinating 1
noundomain: activity
Princeton WordNet [ver.3.1]
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EnglishDefinition
the act of protecting against disease by introducing a vaccine into the body to induce immunity
Examples
- 1.doctors examined the recruits but nurses did the inoculating
Hypernym
protection 1
noun
the activity of protecting someone or something
EnglishDerivationally related form
vaccinate 1
verb
perform vaccinations or produce immunity in by inoculation
Hyponym
administering vaccine only to people in close contact with an isolated infected patient; prevents the spread of a highly infectious disease by surrounding the patient with a ring of immunization
variolation 1
noun
the obsolete process of inoculating a susceptible person with material taken from a vesicle of a person who has smallpox
