vaccination

Meaning

Inoculation with a vaccine, in order to protect from a particular disease or strain of disease.

Synonyms

inoculation

immunization

injection

shot

vaccine

vaccinate

smallpox vaccination

immunisation

medical injection

vaccinum

cicatrice

vaccine inoculation

immunity

inoculum

medication

remedy

scar

treatment

medicine

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Translations

vaccination

Impfung

vacunación

vaccinazione

vacinação

vacunació

vaccinatie

inenting

aşı

εμβολιασμός

Vakzination

vacuna

aşılama

inoculation

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˌvæk.sɪˈneɪ.ʃən/

Etymology

From vaccinia, a cowpox infection. Ultimately from Latin vacca (“cow”). Coined by Edward Jenner (1749-1823) in 1798. Jenner infected people with weakened cowpox viruses (vaccinia), to immunise them against smallpox. It is now known that vaccinia and cow pox are separate conditions, but at the time of Jenner, they were considered the same condition.