vaccination
pronunciation
How to pronounce vaccination in British English:
UK [ˌvæksɪˈneɪʃən]
How to pronounce vaccination in American English:
US [væksəˈneɪʃən]
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- Noun:
- taking a vaccine as a precaution against contracting a disease
- the scar left following innoculation with a vaccine
Word Origin
- vaccination (n.)
- 1800, used by British physician Edward Jenner (1749-1823) for the technique he devised of preventing smallpox by injecting people with the cowpox virus (variolae vaccinae), from vaccine (adj.) "pertaining to cows, from cows" (1798), from Latin vaccinus "from cows," from vacca "cow" (Latin bos "cow" being originally "ox," "a loan word from a rural dialect" according to Buck, who cites Umbrian bue). "The use of the term for diseases other than smallpox is due to Pasteur" [OED].
Example
- 1. Who continues to recommend that health workers be given high priority for early vaccination .
- 2. When smallpox was eliminated throughout the world in 1979 vaccination stopped .
- 3. Mr pan is also pushing a law through california 's legislature that would require parents to discuss vaccination with their paediatricians .
- 4. The vaccination rate for herd immunity varies by disease , but usually falls between 85 % and 95 % .
- 5. Health care is extremely poor with high malnourishment and infant mortality and low vaccination rates .