Vaccination

Etymology
From vacca:. The term was coined by Edward Jenner (1749-1823) who infected people with weakened cowpox viruses to immunise them against the disease.

Pronunciation

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Noun

 * 1) Inoculation with a vaccine in order to protect a particular disease or strain of disease

Related terms

 * vaccination mark

Translations

 * Basque: txerto
 * Czech: ,
 * Dutch:
 * German:
 * Greek: εμβολιασμός
 * Indonesian:
 * Italian:


 * Macedonian: вакцинација
 * Navajo:
 * Norwegian: vaksinering
 * Polish:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:, vaccinering

Noun

 * 1) vaccination