| NOUN | act | inoculating, vaccinating | the act of protecting against disease by introducing a vaccine into the body to induce immunity |
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| Meaning | The act of protecting against disease by introducing a vaccine into the body to induce immunity. | |
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| Example | "doctors examined the recruits but nurses did the inoculating" | |
| Synonym | vaccinating | |
| Narrower | ring vaccination | Administering vaccine only to people in close contact with an isolated infected patient |
| variolation, variolization | The obsolete process of inoculating a susceptible person with material taken from a vesicle of a person who has smallpox | |
| Broader | protection | The activity of protecting someone or something |
| Verbs | inoculate | perform vaccinations or produce immunity in by inoculation |
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