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vaccination
Part of speech: NounAct of inoculating, or making immune from smallpox, by injecting the virus of cowpox.
Usage examples "vaccination":- Jobs is like vaccination, they take or they don't." - "The Vertical City", Fannie Hurst.
- At length he published his views in a quarto of about seventy pages, in which he gave the details of twenty- three cases of successful vaccination of individuals, to whom it was found afterwards impossible to communicate the small- pox either by contagion or inoculation. - "Self Help", Samuel Smiles.
- If the vaccination does not take, it should be repeated after an interval of two months. - "The Mother and Her Child", William S. Sadler Lena K. Sadler.