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- Dictionaryinoculation/ɪˌnɒkjʊˈleɪʃn/
noun
- 1. the action of immunizing someone against a disease by introducing infective material, microorganisms, or vaccine into the body: "inoculation against flu was readily available"
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the action of introducing something such as bacteria, a virus, or a fungus into an animal or plant as part of an experiment or to encourage it to grow there: inoculation with The Petri dishes were half filled with agar before inoculation with the fungus.
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something that protects someone from being affected by...
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INOCULATION definicja: 1. the action of inoculating someone...
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In Immunology, inoculation is defined as the process of introducing an antigenic substance or vaccine into the body to trigger an immune response against a specific disease. Currently, the process of inoculation is also known as vaccination or immunization (Figure 1). Vaccination introduces dead or modified parts of disease-causing microbes (known ...
The word inoculation comes from the Latin word ‘inoculare’ which has the meaning ‘to graft’. In middle English, inoculate meant ‘to insert a bud in a plant’. The bud of a plant resembles an eye (Latin: oculus) and therefore inoculate was used to describe grafting or implanting in horticulture. This term for grafting or implanting was then applied t...
Smallpox was a devastating disease killing around 400,000 people a year and leaving many others with horrific scars or even blindness. It is highly contagious and before vaccinations were introduced it had a death rate of around 20-30%. Humans are the viruses’ only known host. There are two strains of the smallpox virus; these are variola major and...
Both terms inoculation and vaccination have been used to describe the process of giving immunity against smallpox, but we can clarify the separation of the two terms. Inoculation describes the process of deliberately infecting an unexposed person with a mild strain (for example variola minor) of smallpox to create a mild form of the disease. Post i...
Boylston, A. (2012). The origins of inoculation. Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, 105(7), 309–313. https://doi.org/10.1258/jrsm.2012.12k044Boylston, A. (2013). The origins of vaccination: no inoculation, no vaccination. Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, 106(10), 395–398. https://doi.org/10.1177/0141076813499293Commemorating Smallpox Eradication – A Legacy of Hope for COVID-19 and Other Diseases. (2020) World Health Organisation. https://www.who.int/news/item/08-05-2020-commemorating-smallpox-eradication-...Inoculate. “Inoculate.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/inoculate.The meaning of INOCULATION is 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.
Inoculation is the act of implanting a pathogen or other microbe or virus into a person or other organism. It is a method of artificially inducing immunity against various infectious diseases.
Jun 13, 2024 · inoculation, process of producing immunity that consists of introduction of the infectious agent into the body. Historically, inoculation involved introducing the infectious agent onto an abraded or absorptive skin surface.
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Inoculation is a fancy word from the Latin term inoculationem, meaning "engrafting" or "budding." That is exactly what an inoculation is — the grafting of a milder form of some horrible disease in you that will prevent you from getting a far nastier version.
something that protects someone from being affected by something, often by giving them some experience of it: inoculation against As a poet, you have early inoculation against an obsession with success. We need inoculations against our own potential for evil. Fewer examples.
