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- Vaccine - a. - Of or pertaining to cows; pertaining to, derived from, or caused by, vaccinia; as, vaccine virus; the vaccine disease.
- Vaccine - n. - The virus of vaccinia used in vaccination.
- Vaccine - n. - any preparation used to render an organism immune to some disease, by inducing or increasing the natural immunity mechanisms. Prior to 1995, such preparations usually contained killed organisms of the type for which immunity was desired, and sometimes used live organisms having attenuated virulence. since that date, preparations containing only specific antigenic portions of the pathogenic organism are also used, some of which are prepared by genetic engineering techniques.
- Humanize - v. t. - To convert into something human or belonging to man; as, to humanize vaccine lymph.
- Vaccine - a. - Of or pertaining to cows; pertaining to, derived from, or caused by, vaccinia; as, vaccine virus; the vaccine disease.
- Pox - n. - Strictly, a disease by pustules or eruptions of any kind, but chiefly or wholly restricted to three or four diseases, -- the smallpox, the chicken pox, and the vaccine and the venereal diseases.
- Pock - n. - A pustule raised on the surface of the body in variolous and vaccine diseases.