vaccination

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.

• Rhymes: -eɪʃən
• IPA^(key): /ˌvæk.sɪˈneɪ.ʃən/

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• Hyphenation: vac‧ci‧na‧tion

vaccination (countable and uncountable, plural vaccinations)

1. Inoculation with a vaccine, in order to protect from a particular disease or strain of disease.

   Near-synonym: immunization (broadly synonymous)

   • 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.

   • 2021 December 2, “Unvaccinated private boat owners a risk to Aotea's community - iwi”, in Radio NZ‎^[1]:

     It's^[sic] spokesperson Leonie Howie did not want to be interviewed but said they "will do the mahi" when it comes to trying to both encourage vaccinations as well as managing any health risks to the community when visitors arrive.

• (Idiomatically often coordinate despite that hypernymy might be expected)
  • PEP (post-exposure prophylaxis)
  • PrEP (pre-exposure prophylaxis)

• vaccinate
• vaccinator
• vax

vaccination c (singular definite vaccinationen, plural indefinite vaccinationer)

1. vaccination

• vaccine
• vaccinere

• IPA^(key): /vak.si.na.sjɔ̃/

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vaccination f (plural vaccinations)

1. vaccination

• “vaccination”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

vaccination c

1. vaccination

• vaccin
• vaccinera

• vaccination in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• vaccination in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• vaccination in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)