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vacciolation

vacciolation noun: innoculation with cowpox (the vacciolous virus) in order to provide immunity from smallpox.

Noun

vacciolation (countable and uncountable, plural vacciolations)

  1. Innoculation with cowpox (the vacciolous virus) in order to provide immunity from smallpox.
    • I presume the author means by 'after vaccination,' what I should express by after insertion of vacciolous matter, or after the attempt to vacciolate; and yet, when he mentions that zealots on one side have called the eruptions after it by one name, and those on the other by another; I am at a loss...1804, The Medical and Physical Journal - Volume 12, page 334
    • (see title)1804., Samuel Hill, Experiments proving Vacciolation, or Cow-pock Inoculation, to be a permanent Security against small-pox, with facts and remarks.

Forms of vacciolation

pluralvacciolations

Origin of vacciolation

Coined by Dr. John Walker in 1802 from vacciolate + -ion.

Questions about vacciolation

What does vacciolation mean?
Vacciolation means innoculation with cowpox (the vacciolous virus) in order to provide immunity from smallpox.
What part of speech is vacciolation?
Vacciolation is a noun.
What is the plural of vacciolation?
The plural of vacciolation is vacciolations.

Words near vacciolation in the dictionary

  1. vaccinum
  2. vacciolate
  3. vacciolated
  4. vacciolates
  5. vacciolating
  6. vacciolation
  7. vacciolations
  8. vacciolous
  9. vaccs
  10. vaccutainer
  11. Vacek

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