vac·ci·nate

(văk′sə-nāt′)

v. vac·ci·nat·ed, vac·ci·nat·ing, vac·ci·nates

v.tr.

To inoculate with a vaccine in order to produce immunity to an infectious disease, such as diphtheria or typhus.

v.intr.

To perform vaccinations or a vaccination.

vac′ci·na′tor n.

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Noun

vaccinating - the act of protecting against disease by introducing a vaccine into the body to induce immunity; "doctors examined the recruits but nurses did the inoculating"

inoculating

protection - the activity of protecting someone or something; "the witnesses demanded police protection"

ring vaccination - administering vaccine only to people in close contact with an isolated infected patient; prevents the spread of a highly infectious disease by surrounding the patient with a ring of immunization

variolation, variolization - the obsolete process of inoculating a susceptible person with material taken from a vesicle of a person who has smallpox

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And for three days and three nights the monkeys kept coming from the jungles and the valleys and the hills to the little house of grass, where the Doctor sat all day and all night, vaccinating and vaccinating.

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"There are some children that can't be vaccinated for health reasons, and so it's important to remember that by vaccinating your child with two doses of MMR vaccine, you're not only protecting your child's health, but you're also protecting the health of those children who are unable to get vaccinated.

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"The virus has claimed 25 lives to date, three of them in Gaza, and we are in the midst of vaccinating," Asad Ramlawi, general director of primary health care at the Palestinian Ministry of Health, told IRIN.

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