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/, 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

Basque: txerto (eu) Czech: očkování (cs) n., vakcinace (cs) f. Dutch: vaccinatie (nl) f. Estonian: vaktsineerimine (et) German: Impfung (de) f. Greek: εμβολιασμός (el) (emvoliasmós) m. Indonesian: vaksinasi (id) Italian: vaccinazione (it) f.

Macedonian: вакцинација (mk) (vakcinácija) f. Navajo: achʼąąʼ adáʼatsʼiʼ Norwegian: vaksinering (no) m. and f. Polish: szczepienie (pl) n. Russian: вакцинация (ru) 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