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IMMUNISATION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The act of making immune (especially by inoculation)
Synonyms:
immunisation; immunization
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("immunisation" is a kind of...):
protection (the activity of protecting someone or something)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "immunisation"):
inoculation; vaccination (taking a vaccine as a precaution against contracting a disease)
sensitisation; sensitising; sensitization; sensitizing (rendering an organism sensitive to a serum by a series of injections)
