vaccine
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
engineering
immunology
mathematics
medicine
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin vaccīnus (“of or derived from a cow”), from vacca (“cow (female cattle)”) + -īnus (suffix meaning ‘of or pertaining to’ forming adjectives). Sense 1 refers to the early use of the cowpox virus as a vaccination against smallpox: see New Latin variolae vaccīnae (“cowpox”, plural, literally “infectious diseases of cattle causing pustules”), coined by the British physician and scientist Edward Jenner (1749–1823).
Inflected forms:
form: vaccines
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of, pertaining to, caused by, or characteristic of cowpox.
pos: adj
tags: historical
not-comparable
gloss: Of or pertaining to cowpox as a source of material for vaccination against smallpox; also, of or pertaining to such material used for vaccination.
pos: adj
tags: historical
not-comparable
examples: I will call upon them: they are healthy children, we can have the vaccine infection from them, and I will inoculate the boy myself.
gloss: Of, pertaining to, or derived from cattle.
pos: adj
tags: archaic
not-comparable
examples: [M]y play could not have been written but for the work done by Sir Almroth Wright in the theory and practice of securing immunization from bacterial diseases by the inoculation of "vaccines" made of their own bacteria: a practice incorrectly called vaccinetherapy (there is nothing vaccine about it) apparently because it is what vaccination ought to be and is not.
gloss: A substance given to stimulate a body's production of antibodies and provide immunity against a disease without causing the disease itself in the treatment, prepared from the agent that causes the disease (or a derivative of it; or a related, also effective, but safer disease), or a synthetic substitute; also, a dose of such a substance.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: I am much inclined to the vaccine. My friend, Mr. L—, has had all his children vaccined, and I just wait to see the effect.
But he really ought to know the difference between a vaccine and an anti-toxin. Stimulate the phagocytes! The vaccine doesnt affect the phagocytes at all.
South Korea is willing to cooperate with the North to tackle the disease outbreak, but Pyongyang remains unresponsive to any offers for dialogue, including Seoul's earlier proposal to provide COVID vaccines, said another official at the unification ministry.
South Hwanghae Province, where Haeju is located, is North Korea's key agricultural region, raising concerns over possible impacts on the country's already dire food shortage.
“I’m thrilled about the prospect of this, as well as about the prospect of other R.S.V. vaccines in the pipeline,” said Dr. Miller, who is not an adviser to the agency. […] The vaccine under review Thursday was tested in about 7,300 women after the 24th week of pregnancy.
gloss: The process of vaccination; immunization, inoculation.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: My dog has had two vaccines this year.
gloss: The material taken from cowpox pustules used for vaccination against smallpox.
pos: noun
tags: countable
historical
uncountable
gloss: The disease cowpox, especially as a source of material for vaccination against smallpox.
pos: noun
tags: also
countable
obsolete
uncountable
gloss: Something defensive or protective in nature, like a vaccine (sense 1.1).
pos: noun
tags: countable
figuratively
uncountable
gloss: A software program which protects computers against, or detects and neutralizes, computer viruses and other types of malware; an antivirus.
pos: noun
tags: countable
figuratively
uncountable
Related words: unvaccinated
vaccinate
vaccinated
vaccination
vaccinia
vaccinifer
vacciniola
jab
shot
gamma globulin
which may be given as a form of passive immunization
Derived words: abortion vaccine
antivaccine
anti-vaccine
antivax
antivaxxer
autovaccine
candidate vaccine
DPT vaccine
immunovaccine
MMR vaccine
monovaccine
nanovaccine
oncovaccine
polyvaccine
postvaccine
post-vaccine
prevaccine
pro-vaccine
retrovaccine
Sabin vaccine
supervaccine
therapeutic vaccine
unvaxxed
vaccine diplomacy
vaccine escape
vaccine hesitancy
vaccine-injured
vaccine injury
vaccine nationalism
vaccine passport
vaccine point
Vaccine Revolt
vaccine-shop
vaccine shopper
vaccine shopping
vaccinize
vaccinogen
vaccinogenic
vaccinogenous
vaccinoid
vaccinologist
vaccinology
vaccinomics
vaccinophobe
vaccinophobia
vaccinophobic
vaccinosis
vax
vaxxed
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