vaccination
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English
Etymology
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
- Rhymes: -eɪʃən
- IPA(key): /ˌvæk.sɪˈneɪ.ʃən/, /ˌvæk.sɪˈneɪ.ʃn̩/
Audio (US): (file) - Hyphenation: vac‧ci‧na‧tion
Noun
vaccination (countable and uncountable, plural vaccinations)
- 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:
- It's 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.
Coordinate terms
- (Idiomatically often coordinate despite that hypernymy might be expected)
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Translations
inoculation with a vaccine
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Danish
Noun
vaccination c (singular definite vaccinationen, plural indefinite vaccinationer)
Declension
Declension of vaccination
| common gender |
Singular | Plural | ||
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| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
| nominative | vaccination | vaccinationen | vaccinationer | vaccinationerne |
| genitive | vaccinations | vaccinationens | vaccinationers | vaccinationernes |
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French
Pronunciation
Noun
vaccination f (plural vaccinations)
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Further reading
- “vaccination”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.
Swedish
Noun
vaccination c
Declension
Declension of vaccination