inoculating

Noun
  1. The act of protecting against disease by introducing a vaccine into the body to induce immunity (synset 100825715)
    "doctors examined the recruits but nurses did the inoculating"
    is a type of: protection - the activity of protecting someone or something
    subtypes:
    • ring vaccination - administering vaccine only to people in close contact with an isolated infected patient; prevents the spread of a highly infectious disease by surrounding the patient with a ring of immunization
    • variolation, variolization - the obsolete process of inoculating a susceptible person with material taken from a vesicle of a person who has smallpox
    same as: vaccinating

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