Definitions
immunogen consisting of a suspension of weakened or dead pathogenic cells injected in order to stimulate the production of antibodies
Word origin
Learned borrowing from Latin vaccīnus (“of or derived from a cow”), from vacca (“cow (female cattle)”) + -īnus (suffix meaning ‘of or pertaining to’ forming adjectives). Sense 1 refers to the early use of the cowpox virus as a vaccination against smallpox: see New Latin variolae vaccīnae (“cowpox”, plural, literally “infectious diseases of cattle causing pustules”), coined by the British physician and scientist Edward Jenner (1749–1823).
Used in a sentence
“I will call upon them: they are healthy children, we can have the vaccine infection from them, and I will inoculate the boy myself.”
“I am much inclined to the vaccine. My friend, Mr. L—, has had all his children vaccined, and I just wait to see the effect.”
“But he really ought to know the difference between a vaccine and an anti-toxin. Stimulate the phagocytes! The vaccine doesnt affect the phagocytes at all.”
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01“Immunity shot”7 letters
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