Hypertext Webster Gateway: "vaccinating"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Vaccinate \Vac"ci*nate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Vaccinated}; p.
pr. & vb. n. {Vaccinating}.] [See {Vaccine}.]
To inoculate with the cowpox by means of a virus, called
vaccine, taken either directly or indirectly from cows.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
vaccinating
n : the act of protecting against disease by introducing a
vaccine into the body to induce immunity; "doctors
examined the recruits but nurses did the innoculating"
[syn: {inoculating}]
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