Word.ws English Dictionary

DPT vaccine

DPT vaccine noun: any publicly administered vaccine comprising a combination of vaccines against diphtheria, pertussis (whooping cough) and tetanus.

Noun

DPT vaccine (plural DPT vaccines)

  1. (US) Any publicly administered vaccine comprising a combination of vaccines against diphtheria, pertussis (whooping cough) and tetanus.
    • Even though it may have held about 50 percent of the market with a product that was reputed to be safer than the other DPT vaccines available, Lilly was willing to sacrifice Trisolgen.1985, Harris Livermore Coulter, Barbara Loe Fisher, DPT: a Shot in the Dark, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, page 302
    • Pursuant to the court's Order, the FDA attempted to satisfy Kyle's additional requests for a variety of documents, including documents relating to the manufacture of DPT vaccine.1990, Food, Drug, Cosmetic Law Reporter, Commerce Clearing House

Synonyms of DPT vaccine

Forms of DPT vaccine

pluralDPT vaccines
alternative formDPT-vaccine

Origin of DPT vaccine

Initialism of diphtheria, pertussis, tetanus + vaccine.

Questions about DPT vaccine

What does DPT vaccine mean?
DPT vaccine means any publicly administered vaccine comprising a combination of vaccines against diphtheria, pertussis (whooping cough) and tetanus.
What part of speech is DPT vaccine?
DPT vaccine is a noun.
What is the plural of DPT vaccine?
The plural of DPT vaccine is DPT vaccines.

Words near DPT vaccine in the dictionary

  1. DPS Compound
  2. DPSs
  3. DPST
  4. DPSTs
  5. DPT
  6. DPT vaccine
  7. DPT vaccines
  8. DPT-vaccine
  9. DPT-vaccines
  10. dpt.
  11. DPTs

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: DPT vaccine (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “DPT vaccine.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/dpt_vaccine. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.