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vaccine

/vak-seen or, especially British, vak-seen, -sin/US // vækˈsin or, especially British, ˈvæk sin, -sɪn //UK // (ˈvæksiːn) //

疫苗,菌苗,痘痘

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : 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.
    • : the virus of cowpox, used in vaccination, obtained from pox vesicles of a cow or person.
    • : a software program that helps to protect against computer viruses, as by detecting them and warning the user.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : of or relating to vaccination.
    • : of or relating to vaccinia.
    • : of, relating to, or derived from cows.

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Examples

  • The United States and the United Kingdom are two countries in the English-speaking world that have already entered into deals with potential vaccine makers.

  • It’s far from certain that the vaccine will be approved for widespread distribution.

  • Double-dose vaccines will have to come from the same drugmaker.

  • In the 1950s, Albert Sabin was searching for an improved polio vaccine.

  • Chen explained that the scale of the global effort gives him confidence that a vaccine will eventually reach market.

  • The vaccine is delivered through a “carrier virus” that causes a common cold in chimpanzees but does not affect humans.

  • The need for an Ebola vaccine in West Africa has never been greater.

  • With Ebola still raging in West Africa, the race to find a vaccine is heating up.

  • On average, the vaccine has an efficacy of about 60 percent.

  • With enough changing of the influenza RNA over time, the vaccine no longer provokes the “right” immune response.

  • British house of commons voted Dr. Jenner 10,000 for his discovery of the vaccine inoculation.

  • We have two kinds of vaccines already, the cow-pox vaccine and the killed cultures of bacteria introduced by Wright.

  • The final proof was the cure of the patient by an autogenous vaccine made of the offending microbe.

  • It would be better to leave off the word vaccine as applied to them and call them what they are, pollen extracts.

  • Do we not witness in the newly formed vaccine vesicle, an increase of the specific force and principle?