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Inoculation definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

INOCULA'TION, n. [L. inoculatio.] The act or practice of inserting buds of one plant under the bark of another for propagation.
1. The act or practice of communicating a disease to a person in health, by inserting contagious matter in his skin or flesh. This practice is limited chiefly to the communication of the small pox,and of the cow pox, which is intended as a substitute for it. [See Vaccination.]

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: taking a vaccine as a precaution against contracting a disease [syn: inoculation, vaccination]

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: 1714 1. the act or process or an instance of inoculating; especially the introduction of a pathogen or antigen into a living organism to stimulate the production of antibodies 2. inoculum

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Inoculation In*oc"u*la"tion, n. [L. inoculatio: cf. F. inoculation.] 1. The act or art of inoculating trees or plants. 2. (Med.) 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 any similar introduction of modified virus; as, the inoculation of rabies by Pasteur. 3. Fig.: The communication of principles, especially false principles, to the mind.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

see inoculate

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. 1. Budding. 2. Vaccination.

Moby Thesaurus

absorption and regurgitation, antitoxin, bang, booster, booster shot, brainwashing, catechization, conditioning, dictation, embedment, entrance, fix, graft, grafting, hit, hypodermic, hypodermic injection, imbuement, impaction, impactment, implantation, impregnation, impression, inculcation, indoctrination, infixation, infixion, infusion, injection, insertion, insinuation, instillation, instillment, interjection, interpolation, introduction, intromission, jet injection, mainlining, narcotic injection, penetration, perfusion, reindoctrination, shooting up, shot, skin-popping, tessellation, transplant, transplantation, vaccination, vaccine