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inoculate
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inoculate someone against something
to immunize someone against a disease. We need to inoculate all the children against whooping cough. Have you been inoculated against measles?
See also: against

inoculate someone with something

to use a particular substance in immunizing someone against a disease. Donna inoculated Richard and Nancy with yellow fever vaccine for their trip. She also inoculated Sam with something to prevent malaria.
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266) describes it: Jenner's famous discovery of the smallpox vaccine ran into the opposition of the inoculators concerned about losing their lucrative trade .
Economic pathology and comparative economics: why economies fail to ... by Ickes, Barry W. / Comparative Economic Studies
Razzell cited a 1792 article describing how an English amateur inoculator dried smallpox scabs in peat smoke, stored them underground covered with camphor, and used them as long as 8 years later (6).
Osler and the infected letter by Ambrose, Charles T. / Emerging Infectious Diseases
A MEDICAL diagnostics firm has created an inoculator machine that is meeting the needs of laboratories.
Inoculator machine wins firm pounds 200, 000 extra contracts by Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
 
 
 
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