vaccinator
- noun
- /ˈvæksɪˌneɪtər/
:
vacunador
- The vaccinators reached too few people and cattle to be effective, and the disease continued to rage in these final outposts, such as Kenya and Somalia, because their efforts relied too much on a top-down approach.
Examples
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And these vaccinators, these volunteers, they have got to dive headlong into some of the toughest, densest urban slums in the world.
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During the health campaign, each vaccinator visited multiple homes to ensure everyone received their vaccinations.
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And so the idea was to not bring patients to the vaccinators, but to take vaccine to the people.
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The push to turn pharmacists into vaccinators dates back at least to the mid-1990s.
Blog text (24) -
Few vaccinators.
Academic text (2013) -
You know, we build trust around our vaccinators of Sahit Mohawk so that Strangers No more a team was used.
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Rather than parachuting vaccinators from urban areas into local communities for a brief period before they depart, GREP encouraged the use of community-based animal health workers (CAHWs).
Academic text (2013) -
One vaccinator dubbed them "horrible things of no earthly use," with "three faults: first, the brass needle would not penetrate the skin; the India rubber bursts or is cut by the string tied around, and then the bile gets behind the plunger."
Academic text (2006) -
The vaccinator carefully administered the vaccine to prevent the outbreak of disease.
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The local clinic hired additional vaccinators to accommodate the growing number of patients seeking vaccinations.
Synonyms
A person who gives vaccines to protect people from disease
Surface Forms
Morphology
vaccinator = vaccinate (semi-transparent) = vaccin + ate + or
This is a regular agent noun formed from 'vaccinate' with the agentive suffix '-or'.
Etymology
Vaccinator comes from vaccine, which gets its name from the Latin vacca meaning 'cow', because the first vaccine used cowpox, a mild disease from cows, to protect people. So a vaccinator is someone who gives those protective shots.
