| inoculate | | |
| v. (communication) | 1. inoculate | introduce an idea or attitude into the mind of.; "My teachers inoculated me with their beliefs" |
| ~ inform | impart knowledge of some fact, state or affairs, or event to.; "I informed him of his rights" |
| v. (change) | 2. inoculate | introduce a microorganism into. |
| ~ put in, inclose, insert, stick in, introduce, enclose | introduce.; "Insert your ticket here" |
| ~ seed | inoculate with microorganisms. |
| v. (body) | 3. immunise, immunize, inoculate, vaccinate | perform vaccinations or produce immunity in by inoculation.; "We vaccinate against scarlet fever"; "The nurse vaccinated the children in the school" |
| ~ practice of medicine, medicine | the learned profession that is mastered by graduate training in a medical school and that is devoted to preventing or alleviating or curing diseases and injuries.; "he studied medicine at Harvard" |
| ~ inject, shoot | give an injection to.; "We injected the glucose into the patient's vein" |
| v. (body) | 4. inoculate | insert a bud for propagation. |
| ~ propagate | cause to propagate, as by grafting or layering. |
| v. (body) | 5. inoculate | impregnate with the virus or germ of a disease in order to render immune. |
| ~ impregnate | fertilize and cause to grow.; "the egg was impregnated" |
| vaccinate | | |
| immunise | | |
| v. (competition) | 1. immunise, immunize | law: grant immunity from prosecution. |
| ~ protect | shield from danger, injury, destruction, or damage.; "Weatherbeater protects your roof from the rain" |
| immunize | | |
| vaccine | | |
| n. (artifact) | 1. vaccine, vaccinum | immunogen consisting of a suspension of weakened or dead pathogenic cells injected in order to stimulate the production of antibodies. |
| ~ dpt vaccine | abbreviation for combination vaccine against diphtheria and pertussis (whooping cough) and tetanus toxoids; usually given in a series of injections in early childhood. |
| ~ immunizing agent, immunogen | any substance or organism that provokes an immune response (produces immunity) when introduced into the body. |
| ~ pneumococcal vaccine, pneumovax | vaccine (trade name Pneumovax) effective against the 23 most common strains of pneumococcus. |
| ~ poliovirus vaccine | vaccine prepared from poliovirus to provide immunity to poliomyelitis. |
| ~ proteosome, proteosome vaccine | a form of vaccine that can be administered by an inhaler. |
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