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vaccine
Part of Speech: noun
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2. 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.
Examples of usage:
- Great was the obstinacy in refusing relief; and loud the outcry in Norton Bury, when Mr. Halifax, who had met and known Dr. Jenner in London- finding no practitioner that would do it, persisted in administering the vaccine virus himself to his children. - "John Halifax, Gentleman", Dinah Maria Mulock Craik.
- My sister, like the rest of us, had been carefully vaccinated; but the fact was then by no means so generally understood as it now is, that the power of the vaccine dies out of the system by degrees, and requires renewing to insure safety. - "Records of a Girlhood", Frances Ann Kemble.
- We'll find out how much vaccine we've got and decide what to do with it. - "The Year When Stardust Fell", Raymond F. Jones.