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inoculation

noun as in immunization

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Imperial College London is also working on an experimental inoculation.

From Fortune

And, as newsreels of the day made clear, they’d all been early test subjects for the inoculation.

From Ozy

He argues that the Stat scoop also underscores the importance of the press in serving as an additional check on the vaccine race, especially as inoculations are developed and tested in countries with little government transparency or accountability.

From Fortune

Yin said the distribution of the vaccine to Sinovac workers and their families occurred under China’s emergency-use vaccine program, a government policy that allows specific populations of people to receive unproven inoculations.

From Fortune

Some rare adverse reactions to the inoculations may only show up once the vaccines have been studied in a large, diverse population.

From Fortune

Romney says this policy is aimed at helping middle-income Americans, but there is clearly an element of self-inoculation here.

Shouting now is also an inoculation against embarrassment later.

Instead, Kennedy took the punch-line for himself and applied the loud laughs he earned as an inoculation against a poisonous idea.

Tubercle bacilli are nearly always present, although animal inoculation may be necessary to detect them.

It has been shown that the quantity of opsonins in the blood can be greatly increased by inoculation with dead bacteria.

British house of commons voted Dr. Jenner 10,000 for his discovery of the vaccine inoculation.

Probably the general introduction of inoculation first occasioned the discovery.

In some other points of view, the inoculation of this disease appears preferable to the variolous inoculation.

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On this page you'll find 10 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to inoculation, such as: injection, prevention, shot, and vaccination.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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