vaccination
English edit
Etymology edit
From vaccinia, a cowpox infection. Ultimately from Latin vacca (“cow”). Coined by Edward Jenner (1749-1823) in 1798. Jenner infected people with weakened cowpox viruses (Vaccinia), to immunise them against smallpox. It is now known that vaccinia and cow pox are separate conditions, but at the time of Jenner, they were considered the same condition.
Pronunciation edit
- Rhymes: -eɪʃən
- IPA(key): /ˌvæk.sɪˈneɪ.ʃən/, /ˌvæk.sɪˈneɪ.ʃn̩/
Audio (US) (file) - Hyphenation: vac‧ci‧na‧tion
Noun edit
vaccination (countable and uncountable, plural vaccinations)
- Inoculation with a vaccine, in order to protect from a particular disease or strain of disease.
- 2014 June 14, “It's a gas”, in The Economist, volume 411, number 8891:
- One of the hidden glories of Victorian engineering is proper drains. Isolating a city’s effluent and shipping it away in underground sewers has probably saved more lives than any medical procedure except vaccination.
Coordinate terms edit
- (Idiomatically often coordinate despite that hypernymy might be expected)
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Translations edit
inoculation with a vaccine
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Danish edit
Noun edit
vaccination c (singular definite vaccinationen, plural indefinite vaccinationer)
Declension edit
Declension of vaccination
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indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
nominative | vaccination | vaccinationen | vaccinationer | vaccinationerne |
genitive | vaccinations | vaccinationens | vaccinationers | vaccinationernes |
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French edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
vaccination f (plural vaccinations)
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Further reading edit
- “vaccination”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Swedish edit
Noun edit
vaccination c
Declension edit
Declension of vaccination | ||||
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Nominative | vaccination | vaccinationen | vaccinationer | vaccinationerna |
Genitive | vaccinations | vaccinationens | vaccinationers | vaccinationernas |