Associations to the word «Vaccine»

Wiktionary

VACCINE, noun. (immunology) A substance given to stimulate the body's production of antibodies and provide immunity against a disease, prepared from the agent that causes the disease, or a synthetic substitute.
VACCINE POINT, noun. (medicine) (historical) A pointed piece of quill or bone covered at one end with vaccine matter.
VACCINE POINTS, noun. Plural of vaccine point

Dictionary definition

VACCINE, noun. Immunogen consisting of a suspension of weakened or dead pathogenic cells injected in order to stimulate the production of antibodies.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope