vaccination
vak-si-NAY-shuhn/ˌvæk.sɪˈneɪ.ʃən/
Pluralvaccinations
- 1The act of giving someone a vaccine to protect them from a disease.
Like giving your body a practice run so it knows how to fight a sickness later.
Vaccination helped stop the spread of the disease in our town.
The doctor explained why vaccination matters for young children.
Similarimmunization, inoculation
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Origin
The word comes from Latin vacca, meaning 'cow'. Edward Jenner made it in 1798 after using cowpox to protect people from smallpox.