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Definitions for Vaccine

[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.
[2] the virus of cowpox, used in vaccination, obtained from pox vesicles of a cow or person.
[3] a software program that helps to protect against computer viruses, as by detecting them and warning the user.
[4] of or relating to vaccination.
[5] of or relating to vaccinia.
[6] of, relating to, or derived from cows.
[7] 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
[8] (originally) a preparation of the virus of cowpox taken from infected cows and inoculated in humans to produce immunity to smallpox
[9] (modifier) of or relating to vaccination or vaccinia
[10] computing a piece of software designed to detect and remove computer viruses from a system

Words related to Vaccine

needle, dose, pharmaceutical, medication, antibiotic, drug, remedy, cure, prescription, pill, antibody, dram, inoculation, booster, enema, anesthetic, tincture, antidote, balm, salve

Words nearby Vaccine

vaccina, vaccinal, vaccinate, vaccination, vaccinator, vaccine, vaccine lymph, vaccine point, vaccinee, vaccinia, vaccinia virus

Origin of Vaccine

< New Latin (variolae ) vaccīnae cowpox (in title of E. Jenner's treatise of 1798), equivalent to vacc(a ) cow + -īnae, feminine plural of -īnus -ine1

Other words from Vaccine

pro·vac·cine , adjective

Word origin for Vaccine

C18: from New Latin variolae vaccīnae cowpox, title of medical treatise (1798) by Edward Jenner, from Latin vacca a cow

Synonyms for Vaccine

dose, needle, booster, dram, enema, inoculation