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Webster 1913 Edition

Vaccination

Vacˊci-na′tion

,
Noun.
1.
The act, art, or practice of vaccinating, or inoculating with the cowpox, in order to prevent or mitigate an attack of smallpox. Cf.
Inoculation
.
☞ In recent use, vaccination sometimes includes inoculation with any virus as a preventive measure;
as,
vaccination
against cholera
.

Webster 1828 Edition

Vaccination

VACCINA'TION

,
Noun.
The act, art or practice of inoculating persons with the cow-pox.

Definition 2025

vaccination

vaccination

English

Noun

vaccination ‎(uncountable)

  1. Inoculation with a vaccine, in order to protect from a particular disease or strain of disease.
    • 2014 June 14, “It's a gas”, in The Economist, volume 411, number 8891:
      One of the hidden glories of Victorian engineering is proper drains. Isolating a city’s effluent and shipping it away in underground sewers has probably saved more lives than any medical procedure except vaccination.

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French

Noun

vaccination f ‎(plural vaccinations)

  1. vaccination

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Swedish

Noun

vaccination c

  1. vaccination

Declension

Inflection of vaccination 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative vaccination vaccinationen vaccinationer vaccinationerna
Genitive vaccinations vaccinationens vaccinationers vaccinationernas

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Etymology

From vaccinia, a cowpox infection. Ultimately from Latin vacca ‎(“cow”). The term was coined by Edward Jenner (1749-1823) who infected people with weakened cowpox viruses (Vaccinia), to immunise them against the disease. It is now known that vaccinia and cow pox are separate conditions, but at the time of Jenner, they were considered the same condition.

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -eɪʃən
  • IPA(key): /ˌvæk.sɪˈneɪ.ʃən/, /ˌvæk.sɪˈneɪ.ʃn̩/
  • Hyphenation: vac‧ci‧na‧tion

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