vac·ci·nate (v k s -n t )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·nator n. |
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| Noun | 1. |  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"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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