Term: ring vaccination: 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
Broader: abstraction: a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples | Unrelated: poison sumac: dermatitis resulting from contact with a poison sumac plant
Broader: abstraction: a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples | Unrelated: indefinite integral: the set of functions F(x) + C, where C is any real number, such that F(x) is the integral of f(x)
Broader: abstraction: a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples | Unrelated: epstein-barr virus: the herpes virus that causes infectious mononucleosis; associated with specific cancers in Africa and China
Broader: abstraction: a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples | Unrelated: perversion: the action of perverting something (turning it to a wrong use)
Broader: abstraction: a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples | Unrelated: elaidic acid: a monounsaturated fatty acid that has the same structure as oleic acid except that it is a trans fatty acid; the major trans fatty acid in margarine and fried foods
Broader: abstraction: a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples | Unrelated: flank: a cut from the fleshy part of an animal's side between the ribs and the leg
Broader: abstraction: a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples | Unrelated: membracidae: plant hoppers: treehoppers
Broader: abstraction: a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples | Unrelated: vin ordinaire: cheap French table wine of unspecified origin
Broader: abstraction: a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples | Unrelated: combretum: any of numerous shrubs or small trees of the genus Combretum having spikes of small flowers
Broader: abstraction: a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples | Unrelated: aplysiidae: sea hares