POLIOVIRUS VACCINE

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Meaning:

Vaccine prepared from poliovirus to provide immunity to poliomyelitis

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Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("poliovirus vaccine" is a kind of...):

vaccine; vaccinum (immunogen consisting of a suspension of weakened or dead pathogenic cells injected in order to stimulate the production of antibodies)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "poliovirus vaccine"):

OPV; oral poliovirus vaccine; Sabin vaccine; TOPV; trivalent live oral poliomyelitis vaccine (an oral vaccine (containing live but weakened poliovirus) that is given to provide immunity to poliomyelitis)

IPV; Salk vaccine (a poliovirus vaccine consisting of inactivated polio virus that is injected subcutaneously to provide immunity to poliomyelitis)

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