Definition of inoculation

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Inoculation (n.) The act or practice of communicating a disease to a person in health, by inserting contagious matter in his skin or flesh..

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Inoculable :: Inoculable (a.) Capable of being inoculated; capable of communicating disease, or of being communicated, by inoculation..
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..
Inoculation :: Inoculation (n.) The act or art of inoculating trees or plants.
Inoculation :: Inoculation (n.) Fig.: The communication of principles, especially false principles, to the mind..
Inoculator :: Inoculator (n.) One who inoculates; one who propagates plants or diseases by inoculation.
Retrovaccination :: Retrovaccination (n.) The inoculation of a cow with human vaccine virus.
Varioloid :: Varioloid (a.) The smallpox as modified by previous inoculation or vaccination.
Inoculation :: Inoculation (n.) The act or practice of communicating a disease to a person in health, by inserting contagious matter in his skin or flesh..
Immune :: Immune (a.) Exempt; protected by inoculation.
Emplastration :: Emplastration (n.) The act or process of grafting by inoculation; budding.
Anthrax :: Anthrax (n.) An infectious disease of cattle and sheep. It is ascribed to the presence of a rod-shaped bacterium (Bacillus anthracis), the spores of which constitute the contagious matter. It may be transmitted to man by inoculation. The spleen becomes greatly enlarged and filled with bacteria. Called also splenic fever..
Vaccination :: Vaccination (n.) The act, art, or practice of vaccinating, or inoculating with the cowpox, in order to prevent or mitigate an attack of smallpox. Cf. Inoculation..
Inoculate :: Inoculate (v. i.) To communicate disease by inoculation.
Variolation :: Variolation (n.) Inoculation with smallpox.
Syphilize :: Syphilization (n.) Inoculation with the syphilitic virus, especially when employed as a preventive measure, like vaccination..
Hydrophobia :: Hydrophobia (n.) The disease caused by a bite form, or inoculation with the saliva of, a rabid creature, of which the chief symptoms are, a sense of dryness and construction in the throat, causing difficulty in deglutition, and a marked heightening of reflex excitability, producing convulsions whenever the patient attempts to swallow, or is disturbed in any way, as by the sight or sound of water; rabies; canine madness..
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