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vaccine

[vak-seen, vak-seen, -sin] / vækˈsin, ˈvæk sin, -sɪn /


NOUN
injection
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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.

From Time Magazine Archive

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




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