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Grammar : Noun
Spell : vak-seen or, esp. British, vak-seen, -sin
Phonetic Transcription : vækˈsin or, esp. British, ˈvæk sin, -sɪn

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Définition of vaccine

Origin :
  • "matter used in vaccination," 1846, from Latin vaccina, fem. of vaccinus "pertaining to a cow" (see vaccination).
  • As in injection : noun introduction into bloodstream
  • As in medicine/medication : noun substance that helps cure, alleviate, or prevent illness
  • As in medicine : noun cure
  • As in serum : noun antitoxin
  • As in booster shot : noun additional dose of vaccine
  • As in antitoxin : noun agent for negating the effect of an infection or poison
Example sentences :
  • A Frankfort man has written a farce comedy called "Vaccine."
  • Extract from : « The New Pun Book » by Thomas A. Brown and Thomas Joseph Carey
  • This latter is the cow-pox, from which Jenner derived the vaccine matter.
  • Extract from : « Cattle and Their Diseases » by Robert Jennings
  • Phillip, you had the worst cold of your life when you took the vaccine.
  • Extract from : « The Coffin Cure » by Alan Edward Nourse
  • The public response to the vaccine was little less than monumental.
  • Extract from : « The Coffin Cure » by Alan Edward Nourse
  • One laboratory promised the vaccine in ten days; another said a week.
  • Extract from : « The Coffin Cure » by Alan Edward Nourse
  • When unsuccessful, the vaccine matter or the technique is faulty.
  • Extract from : « The Home Medical Library, Volume I (of VI) » by Various
  • Meanwhile the bacteriologists are steadily at work on a vaccine or antitoxin.
  • Extract from : « Preventable Diseases » by Woods Hutchinson
  • He also aided agriculture by discovering a vaccine for swine plague.
  • Extract from : « An Introduction to the History of Science » by Walter Libby
  • It was broad daylight by this time, and I had my lancet and vaccine lymph with me.
  • Extract from : « At the Court of the Amr » by John Alfred Gray
  • The vaccine is said to be prepared from cultures from this fungus.
  • Extract from : « The Propaganda for Reform in Proprietary Medicines, Vol. 2 of 2 » by Various

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