vaccine
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It was borrowed from the New Latin "vaccina," which goes back to Latin's feminine "vaccinus," meaning "of or from a cow."
From Fox News • Nov. 29, 2021
Public vaccina tion centers were set up in schools, colleges, industrial plants and even firehouses.
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We may cite his Historical and Chemical Supplements, to the knowledge of some therapeutical agents, of the class Euphorbiæ; some notices on small pox, vaccina, and modified small pox.
From North American Medical and Surgical Journal, Vol. 2, No. 3, July, 1826 by Bache, Franklin
Vocabulary lists containing vaccine
"Laws are not the only way to boost immunization”: an editorial from Nature
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This Week In Words: February 29–March 6, 2020
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An Explanation of Herd Immunity from "On Immunity" by Eula Biss
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