ALL meanings of vaccine
vac·cine
V v - noun vaccine substance that inoculates 1
- noun vaccine any preparation used as a preventive inoculation to confer immunity against a specific disease, usually employing an innocuous form of the disease agent, as killed or weakened bacteria or viruses, to stimulate antibody production. 1
- noun vaccine the virus of cowpox, used in vaccination, obtained from pox vesicles of a cow or person. 1
- noun vaccine a software program that helps to protect against computer viruses, as by detecting them and warning the user. 1
- adjective vaccine of or relating to vaccination. 1
- adjective vaccine of or relating to vaccinia. 1
- adjective vaccine of, relating to, or derived from cows. 1
- noun vaccine (immunology) A substance given to stimulate the body's production of antibodies and provide immunity against a disease, prepared from the agent that causes the disease, or a synthetic substitute. 0
- variable noun vaccine A vaccine is a substance containing a harmless form of the germs that cause a particular disease. It is given to people, usually by injection, to prevent them getting that disease. 0
- noun vaccine a suspension of dead, attenuated, or otherwise modified microorganisms (viruses, bacteria, or rickettsiae) for inoculation to produce immunity to a disease by stimulating the production of antibodies 0
- noun vaccine (originally) a preparation of the virus of cowpox taken from infected cows and inoculated in humans to produce immunity to smallpox 0
- noun vaccine of or relating to vaccination or vaccinia 0
- noun vaccine a piece of software designed to detect and remove computer viruses from a system 0
- noun vaccine lymph, or a preparation of this, from a cowpox vesicle, containing the causative virus and used in vaccination against cowpox or smallpox 0
- noun vaccine any preparation of killed microorganisms, living weakened organisms, etc. introduced into the body to produce immunity to a specific disease by causing the formation of antibodies 0
- adjective vaccine of cowpox or vaccination 0