vaccination

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Etymology

From Latin vacca (“cow”). The term was coined by Edward Jenner (1749-1823) who infected people with weakened cowpox viruses to immunise them against the disease.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -eɪʃən
• IPA: /ˌvæk.sɪˈneɪ.ʃən/, /ˌvæk.sɪˈneɪ.ʃn̩/, X-SAMPA: /%v{k.sI"neI.S@n/, /%v{k.sI"neI.sn=/

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Noun

vaccination (uncountable)

1. Inoculation with a vaccine in order to protect a particular disease or strain of disease

Related terms

• vaccination mark

Translations

inoculation with a vaccine

• Arabic: تطعيم (ar) (taṭʿīm) m
• Basque: txerto (eu)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 接種疫苗 (cmn) (jiēzhǒng yìmiáo)

• Czech: očkování (cs) n, vakcinace (cs) f
• Dutch: vaccinatie (nl) f, inenting (nl) f
• Estonian: vaktsineerimine (et)
• French: vaccination (fr) f
• German: Impfung (de) f
• Greek: εμβολιασμός (el) (emvoliasmós) m
• Indonesian: vaksinasi (id)

• Italian: vaccinazione (it) f
• Japanese: 予防接種 (ja) (よぼうせっしゅ, yobō sesshu), ワクチン接種 (ja) (wakuchin sesshu)
• Macedonian: вакцинација (mk) (vakcinácija) f
• Navajo: achʼąąʼ adáʼatsʼiʼ
• Norwegian: vaksinering (no) m and f
• Polish: szczepienie (pl) n
• Russian: вакцинация (ru) (vakcinácija) f
• Spanish: vacunación (es) m
• Swedish: vaccination (sv) c, vaccinering c
• Võro: vaktsiniirmine

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French

Noun

vaccination f (plural vaccinations)

1. vaccination

Related terms

• vaccin
• vacciner

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Swedish

Noun

vaccination c

1. vaccination

Declension

Declension of vaccination

	singular		plural
Common	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	vaccination	vaccinationen	vaccinationer	vaccinationerna
genitive	vaccinations	vaccinationens	vaccinationers	vaccinationernas

See also

• vaccin
• vaccinera