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INOCULATING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The act of protecting against disease by introducing a vaccine into the body to induce immunity
Example:
doctors examined the recruits but nurses did the inoculating
Synonyms:
inoculating; vaccinating
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("inoculating" is a kind of...):
protection (the activity of protecting someone or something)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "inoculating"):
ring vaccination (administering vaccine only to people in close contact with an isolated infected patient; prevents the spread of a highly infectious disease by surrounding the patient with a ring of immunization)
variolation; variolization (the obsolete process of inoculating a susceptible person with material taken from a vesicle of a person who has smallpox)
Derivation:
inoculate (perform vaccinations or produce immunity in by inoculation)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb inoculate
