vaccination
English
editEtymology
editFrom 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.
Pronunciation
edit- Rhymes: -eɪʃən
- IPA(key): /ˌvæk.sɪˈneɪ.ʃən/, /ˌvæk.sɪˈneɪ.ʃn̩/
Audio (US): (file) - Hyphenation: vac‧ci‧na‧tion
Noun
editvaccination (countable and uncountable, plural vaccinations)
- Inoculation with a vaccine, in order to protect from a particular disease or strain of disease.
- 2014 June 14, “It's a gas”, in The Economist, volume 411, number 8891:
- One of the hidden glories of Victorian engineering is proper drains. Isolating a city’s effluent and shipping it away in underground sewers has probably saved more lives than any medical procedure except vaccination.
Coordinate terms
edit- (Idiomatically often coordinate despite that hypernymy might be expected)
Derived terms
editRelated terms
editTranslations
editinoculation with a vaccine
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Danish
editNoun
editvaccination c (singular definite vaccinationen, plural indefinite vaccinationer)
Declension
editDeclension of vaccination
common gender |
Singular | Plural | ||
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indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
nominative | vaccination | vaccinationen | vaccinationer | vaccinationerne |
genitive | vaccinations | vaccinationens | vaccinationers | vaccinationernes |
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editFrench
editPronunciation
editNoun
editvaccination f (plural vaccinations)
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editFurther reading
edit- “vaccination”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Swedish
editNoun
editvaccination c
Declension
editDeclension of vaccination | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | vaccination | vaccinationen | vaccinationer | vaccinationerna |
Genitive | vaccinations | vaccinationens | vaccinationers | vaccinationernas |
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