Term: inoculating: the act of protecting against disease by introducing a vaccine into the body to induce immunity
Broader: abstraction: a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples | Unrelated: prayer: a fixed text used in praying
Broader: abstraction: a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples | Unrelated: napoleon: a card game similar to whist; usually played for stakes
Broader: abstraction: a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples | Unrelated: swamp dewberry: of eastern North America
Broader: abstraction: a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples | Unrelated: hessian fly: small fly whose larvae damage wheat and other grains
Broader: abstraction: a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples | Unrelated: contemporary: a person of nearly the same age as another
Broader: abstraction: a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples | Unrelated: air conditioner: a system that keeps air cool and dry
Broader: abstraction: a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples | Unrelated: nose: a symbol of inquisitiveness
Broader: abstraction: a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples | Unrelated: braising: cooking slowly in fat in a closed pot with little moisture
Broader: abstraction: a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples | Unrelated: chain fern: a fern of the genus Woodwardia having the sori in chainlike rows
Broader: abstraction: a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples | Unrelated: minamata disease: a form of mercury poisoning among people who ate fish from mercury-contaminated waters of Minamata Bay off Japan in the 1950s; characterized by severe neurological degeneration