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The act or art of inoculating trees or plants.

The act or practice of communicating a disease to a person in health, by inserting contagious matter in his skin or flesh.

Fig.: The communication of principles, especially false principles, to the mind.

The act or art of inoculating trees or plants.

The act or practice of communicating a disease to a person in health, by inserting contagious matter in his skin or flesh.

Fig.: The communication of principles, especially false principles, to the mind.

Introduction of the virus of a disease into the body.

Insertion of virus in the tissues.

The act or practice of inoculating, as a bud or infectious matter.

The act or practice of communicating disease by inserting contagious matter into the punctured skin; the act of inserting the eye of a bud into another stock.

Any operation by which small-pox, for example, may be artificially communicated, by introducing the virus of the particular disease into the economy, by means of a puncture or scratch made in the skin. When the word inoculation is used alone, it usually means that for the small-pox, - Variola'tion. See Syphilization.

Insertion of virus into a wound or abrasion in the skin in order to communicate disease.

The introduction of the parasitic animal or vegetable organisms capable of producing disease into the circulation or the tissues.

The operation of ingrafting a bud.

The process of inoculating, especially (as formerly used) that of inoculating with the virus of smallpox.

n. Act or practice of inoculating.

Inoculation is practised upon all efforts of stone-fruit, and upon oranges and jasmines; the practice of transplanting the small-pox, by infusion of the matter from ripened pustules into the veins of the uninfected.