vaccination
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From vaccinia, a cowpox infection. Ultimately from Latin vacca (“cow”). Coined by Edward Jenner (1749-1823) in 1798. Jenner infected people with weakened cowpox viruses (Vaccinia), to immunise them against smallpox. It is now known that vaccinia and cow pox are separate conditions, but at the time of Jenner, they were considered the same condition.
Pronunciation
[edit]- Rhymes: -eɪʃən
- IPA(key): /ˌvæk.sɪˈneɪ.ʃən/, /ˌvæk.sɪˈneɪ.ʃn̩/
Audio (US): (file) - Hyphenation: vac‧ci‧na‧tion
Noun
[edit]vaccination (countable and uncountable, plural vaccinations)
- Inoculation with a vaccine, in order to protect from a particular disease or strain of disease.
- Near-synonym: immunization (broadly synonymous)
- 2014 June 14, “It's a gas”, in The Economist, volume 411, number 8891:
- One of the hidden glories of Victorian engineering is proper drains. Isolating a city’s effluent and shipping it away in underground sewers has probably saved more lives than any medical procedure except vaccination.
Coordinate terms
[edit]- (Idiomatically often coordinate despite that hypernymy might be expected)
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]inoculation with a vaccine
|
Danish
[edit]Noun
[edit]vaccination c (singular definite vaccinationen, plural indefinite vaccinationer)
Declension
[edit]Declension of vaccination
common gender |
Singular | Plural | ||
---|---|---|---|---|
indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
nominative | vaccination | vaccinationen | vaccinationer | vaccinationerne |
genitive | vaccinations | vaccinationens | vaccinationers | vaccinationernes |
Related terms
[edit]French
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]vaccination f (plural vaccinations)
Related terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “vaccination”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Swedish
[edit]Noun
[edit]vaccination c
Declension
[edit]Declension of vaccination
Related terms
[edit]References
[edit]Categories:
- English terms derived from Latin
- English coinages
- Rhymes:English/eɪʃən
- Rhymes:English/eɪʃən/4 syllables
- English 4-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- English terms with audio pronunciation
- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- English countable nouns
- English terms with quotations
- en:Immunology
- Danish lemmas
- Danish nouns
- Danish terms spelled with C
- Danish common-gender nouns
- da:Immunology
- French 4-syllable words
- French terms with IPA pronunciation
- French terms with audio pronunciation
- French lemmas
- French nouns
- French countable nouns
- French feminine nouns
- fr:Immunology
- Swedish lemmas
- Swedish nouns
- Swedish common-gender nouns
- sv:Immunology