| NOUN | artifact | poliovirus vaccine | vaccine prepared from poliovirus to provide immunity to poliomyelitis |
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| Meaning | vaccine prepared from poliovirus to provide immunity to poliomyelitis. | |
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| Narrower | Sabin vaccine, oral poliovirus vaccine, OPV, trivalent live oral poliomyelitis vaccine, TOPV | An oral vaccine (containing live but weakened poliovirus) that is given to provide immunity to poliomyelitis |
| Salk vaccine, IPV | A poliovirus vaccine consisting of inactivated polio virus that is injected subcutaneously to provide immunity to poliomyelitis | |
| Broader | vaccine, vaccinum | immunogen consisting of a suspension of weakened or dead pathogenic cells injected in order to stimulate the production of antibodies |
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