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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. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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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). 35) Not surprisingly, anticolonial sentiment, which had been aroused by the invasive quarantine measures, intensified further as inoculators injected cattle with a vaccine that introduced symptoms of rinderpest, if only for hours or a few days. As the only FDA-approved needle-free inoculator currently available in the United States, Bioject(TM) systems are designed to deliver injected medications comfortably, accurately, and quickly - without the use of a needle. |
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