Word.ws English Dictionary

pre-vaccine

pre-vaccine is the alternative form of prevaccine.

Meaning of prevaccine

Adjective

prevaccine (not comparable)

  1. Before a vaccine, or before the use of vaccines generally.
    • In the European countries and United States of America it is estimated that RV is responsible for 30%-50% of hospitalizations due to acute gastroenteritis among infants and young children in the prevaccine era.2015 July 28, “Rotavirus Gastroenteritis in a Neonatal Unit of a Greek Tertiary Hospital: Clinical Characteristics and Genotypes”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Questions about pre-vaccine

What is pre-vaccine the alternative form of?
Pre-vaccine is the alternative form of prevaccine.

Words near pre-vaccine in the dictionary

  1. pre-twisted
  2. pre-twisting
  3. pre-twists
  4. Pre-U
  5. Pre-Us
  6. pre-vaccine
  7. pre-viewed
  8. pre-vis
  9. pre-voice
  10. pre-voiceless
  11. pre-war

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: pre-vaccine (page history and authors); prevaccine (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: “pre-vaccine.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/pre-vaccine. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.