RING VACCINATION

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

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Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("ring vaccination" is a kind of...):

inoculating; vaccinating (the act of protecting against disease by introducing a vaccine into the body to induce immunity)

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