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Vaccine :: Vaccine (n.) any preparation used to render an organism immune to some disease, by inducing or increasing the natural immunity mechanisms. Prior to 1995, such preparations usually contained killed organisms of the type for which immunity was desired, and sometimes used live organisms having attenuated virulence. since that date, preparations containing only specific antigenic portions of the pathogenic organism are also used, some of which are prepared by genetic engineering techniques..

Extenuate :: Extenuate (v. t.) To lower or degrade; to detract from.

Gross :: Gross (superl.) Thick; dense; not attenuated; as, a gross medium..

Excuse :: Excuse (v. t.) That which excuses; that which extenuates or justifies a fault.

Extenuate :: Extenuate (v. t.) To lessen; to palliate; to lessen or weaken the force of; to diminish the conception of, as crime, guilt, faults, ills, accusations, etc.; -- opposed to aggravate..

Extenuate :: Extenuate (v. i.) To become thinner; to make excuses; to advance palliating considerations.

Extenuatory :: Extenuatory (a.) Tending to extenuate or palliate.

Wedge-tailed :: Wedge-tailed (a.) Having a tail which has the middle pair of feathers longest, the rest successively and decidedly shorter, and all more or less attenuate; -- said of certain birds. See Illust. of Wood hoopoe, under Wood..

Pasteurism :: Pasteurism (n.) A method of treatment, devised by Pasteur, for preventing certain diseases, as hydrophobia, by successive inoculations with an attenuated virus of gradually increasing strength..

Extenuate :: Extenuate (v. t.) To make thin or slender; to draw out so as to lessen the thickness.

Palliative :: Palliative (a.) Serving to palliate; serving to extenuate or mitigate.

Finespun :: Finespun (a.) Spun so as to be fine; drawn to a fine thread; attenuated; hence, unsubstantial; visionary; as, finespun theories..

Ecphractic :: Ecphractic (a.) Serving to dissolve or attenuate viscid matter, and so to remove obstructions; deobstruent..

Palliate :: Palliate (v. t.) To cover with excuses; to conceal the enormity of, by excuses and apologies; to extenuate; as, to palliate faults..

Alleviate :: Alleviate (v. t.) To extenuate; to palliate.

Tenuated :: Tenuated (imp. & p. p.) of Tenuat.

Mince :: Mince (v. t.) To suppress or weaken the force of; to extenuate; to palliate; to tell by degrees, instead of directly and frankly; to clip, as words or expressions; to utter half and keep back half of..

Extenuator :: Extenuator (n.) One who extenuates.

Attenuate :: Attenuate (v. t.) To lessen the amount, force, or value of; to make less complex; to weaken..

Extenuate :: Extenuate (a.) Thin; slender.

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