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noun - a substance (a virus or toxin or immune serum) that is introduced into the body to produce or increase immunity to a particular disease
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Continual development of vaccine? |
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See inoculum. |
a substance suitable for inoculating. |
a substance (a virus or toxin or immune serum) that is introduced into the body to produce or increase immunity to a particular disease |
A substance suitable for inoculating. |
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The terms inoculation, vaccination, and immunization are often used synonymously to refer to artificial induction of immunity against various infectious diseases. This is supported by some dictionaries. However, there are some important historical and current differences. In English medicine, inoculation referred only to the practice of variolation until the very early 1800s. When Edward Jenner introduced smallpox vaccine in 1798, this was initially called cowpox inoculation or vaccine inoculation. Soon, to avoid confusion, smallpox inoculation continued to be referred to as variolation (from variola = smallpox) and cowpox inoculation was referred to as vaccination (from Jenner's use of variolae vaccinae = smallpox of the cow). Then, in 1891, Louis Pasteur proposed that the terms vaccine and vaccination should be extended to include the new protective procedures being developed. Immunization refers to the use of all vaccines but also extends to the use of antitoxin, which contains pref |