Word Meanings - VACCINATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The act, art, or practice of vaccinating, or inoculating with the cowpox, in order to prevent or mitigate an attack of smallpox. Cf. Inoculation. Note: In recent use, vaccination sometimes includes inoculation with any virus as a preventive measure;

Additional info about word: VACCINATION

The act, art, or practice of vaccinating, or inoculating with the cowpox, in order to prevent or mitigate an attack of smallpox. Cf. Inoculation. Note: In recent use, vaccination sometimes includes inoculation with any virus as a preventive measure; as, vaccination of cholera.

Related words: (words related to VACCINATION)

• PREVENTATIVE
  That which prevents; -- incorrectly used instead of preventive.
• VACCINATION
  The act, art, or practice of vaccinating, or inoculating with the cowpox, in order to prevent or mitigate an attack of smallpox. Cf. Inoculation. Note: In recent use, vaccination sometimes includes inoculation with any virus as a preventive measure;
• INOCULATION
  The act or practice of communicating a disease to a person in health, by inserting contagious matter in his skin or flesh. Note: The use was formerly limited to the intentional communication of the smallpox, but is now extended to include
• SOMETIMES
  1. Formerly; sometime. That fair and warlike form In which the majesty of buried Denmark Did sometimes march. Shak. 2. At times; at intervals; now and then;occasionally. It is good that we sometimes be contradicted. Jer. Taylor. Sometimes . . .
• RECENTNESS
  Quality or state of being recent.
• PRACTICER
  1. One who practices, or puts in practice; one who customarily performs certain acts. South. 2. One who exercises a profession; a practitioner. 3. One who uses art or stratagem. B. Jonson.
• PREVENTABLE
  Capable of being prevented or hindered; as, preventable diseases.
• PREVENTINGLY
  So as to prevent or hinder.
• MEASURER
  One who measures; one whose occupation or duty is to measure commondities in market.
• PREVENT
  1. To go before; to precede; hence, to go before as a guide; to direct. We which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep. 1 Thess. iv. 15. We pray thee that thy grace may always prevent and follow
• PREVENTABILITY
  The quality or state of being preventable.
• PRACTICED
  1. Experienced; expert; skilled; as, a practiced marksman. "A practiced picklock." Ld. Lytton. 2. Used habitually; learned by practice.
• ORDERLY
  1. Conformed to order; in order; regular; as, an orderly course or plan. Milton. 2. Observant of order, authority, or rule; hence, obedient; quiet; peaceable; not unruly; as, orderly children; an orderly community. 3. Performed in good
• MEASURELESS
  Without measure; unlimited; immeasurable. -- Meas"ure*less*ness, n. Syn. -- Boundless; limitless; endless; unbounded; unlimited; vast; immense; infinite; immeasurable. Where Alf, the sacred river ran, Through canyons measureless to man, Down to
• ATTACK
  1. To fall upon with force; to assail, as with force and arms; to assault. "Attack their lines." Dryden. 2. To assail with unfriendly speech or writing; to begin a controversy with; to attempt to overthrow or bring into disrepute, by criticism
• SMALLPOX
  A contagious, constitutional, febrile disease characterized by a peculiar eruption; variola. The cutaneous eruption is at first a collection of papules which become vesicles (first flat, subsequently umbilicated) and then pustules, and finally thick
• PRACTICE
  A easy and concise method of applying the rules of arithmetic to questions which occur in trade and business. (more info) also, practique, LL. practica, fr. Gr. Practical, and cf. Pratique, 1. Frequently repeated or customary action;
• VIRUS
  Contagious or poisonous matter, as of specific ulcers, the bite of snakes, etc.; -- applied to organic poisons. The special contagion, inappreciable to the senses and acting in exceedingly minute quantities, by which a disease is introduced into
• COWPOX
  A pustular eruptive disease of the cow, which, when communicated to the human system, as by vaccination, protects from the smallpox; vaccinia; -- called also kinepox, cowpock, and kinepock. Dunglison.
• INOCULATOR
  One who inoculates; one who propagates plants or diseases by inoculation.
• IMPREVENTABLE
  Not preventable; invitable.
• IMBORDER
  To furnish or inclose with a border; to form a border of. Milton.
• IMPREVENTABILITY
  The state or quality of being impreventable.
• IMMEASURED
  Immeasurable. Spenser.
• MISORDER
  To order ill; to manage erroneously; to conduct badly. Shak.
• ADMEASURE
  To determine the proper share of, or the proper apportionment; as, to admeasure dower; to admeasure common of pasture. Blackstone. 2. The measure of a thing; dimensions; size. (more info) 1. To measure.
• REMEASURE
  To measure again; to retrace. They followed him . . . The way they came, their steps remeasured right. Fairfax.
• ACCORDER
  One who accords, assents, or concedes.
• OUTMEASURE
  To exceed in measure or extent; to measure more than. Sir T. Browne.
• ANTIVACCINATION
  Opposition to vaccination. London Times.