INOCULATION
\ɪnˌɒkjʊlˈe͡ɪʃən], \ɪnˌɒkjʊlˈeɪʃən], \ɪ_n_ˌɒ_k_j_ʊ_l_ˈeɪ_ʃ_ə_n]\
Definitions of INOCULATION
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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The act or art of inoculating trees or plants.
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The act or practice of communicating a disease to a person in health, by inserting contagious matter in his skin or flesh.
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Fig.: The communication of principles, especially false principles, to the mind.
By Oddity Software
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The act or art of inoculating trees or plants.
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The act or practice of communicating a disease to a person in health, by inserting contagious matter in his skin or flesh.
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Fig.: The communication of principles, especially false principles, to the mind.
By Noah Webster.
By William R. Warner
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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.
By Robley Dunglison
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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The introduction of the parasitic animal or vegetable organisms capable of producing disease into the circulation or the tissues.
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The operation of ingrafting a bud.
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The process of inoculating, especially (as formerly used) that of inoculating with the virus of smallpox.
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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