vaccine
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2.8
- noun
- /vækˈsiːn/
- Specialized
:
vacuna
- As the HIV-1 epidemic continues to spread worldwide, the need for an effective vaccine remains urgent.
- vaccine efficacy
- vaccines induce immunity
- effective vaccine
So today we get our flu vaccines from chicken eggs.
- So today we get our flu vaccines from chicken eggs.
- So please, for all of us, get the vaccine now.
- Both for the flu vaccine and for the COVID shot.
- If you don't get the vaccine, you are hurting.
- You said the effect or the benefit of vaccines is undisputed.
- But can we ever make a vaccine that deals with all variants?
- The pause on Astra Zeneca's vaccine trial remains in effect.
- The fastest successful vaccine trial of all time.
- And these are perfectly safe vaccines, in my opinion.
- But listen, the vaccines are safe and effective, right?
- There is never going to be a vaccine for Alzheimer's disease.
- We're going to call this the vaccine and the cure.
- There's a sudden like, Oh my God, Yikes, vaccine being shut off.
- So you are replying to her vaccine pro vaccine mandate tweets.
- You going to get a vaccine trap?
Examples
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The fastest successful vaccine trial of all time.
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A careful risk assessment is required in order to make vaccine recommendations.
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So please, for all of us, get the vaccine now.
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What can we do knowing that a vaccine is like a year away?
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But as far as what the vaccine actually does...
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As with any new vaccine... there were certain side effects associated with it.
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However, she is concerned about having this live vaccine while pregnant.
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Did you schedule him for his polio vaccine?
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The first Covid vaccine at Pittsburgh Presbyterian.
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Before traveling abroad, make sure to get the necessary vaccine to protect against various diseases.
Synonyms
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An injection of a medicine or vaccine with a needle
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7.1
A short informal word for a shot that protects you from a virus
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8.7
A substance put into animals or people to help protect them from disease
A substance that makes the body produce protection against a disease, for example in a vaccine
A substance that makes the body build protection against a disease when given to a person or animal
Compounds
- Archaic
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3.3
A vaccine made from killed polio virus given by injection to prevent polio
- Specialized
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4.6
A shot that helps protect people from serious lung and blood infections
- Specialized
A vaccine that protects children against diphtheria, whooping cough and tetanus
- Specialized
A vaccine given by mouth that has a weakened live virus to protect against polio
- Specialized
A medicine people take by mouth that contains weakened polio virus to protect them from polio
- Specialized
A medicine taken by mouth that contains three weakened live polio viruses to protect against polio
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A vaccine made from cowpox virus that protects people from smallpox and often leaves a small scar
How Effective
- Specialized
20
3.7
- Specialized
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374
2.8
- Specialized
15
5.0
Surface Forms
Etymology
Vaccine comes from the old Latin word vacca, which means 'cow'. Long ago a scientist used material from cowpox to protect people from smallpox, so a vaccine is a medicine that uses a safe form of a germ to teach your body to fight a disease.