Definitions for vaccine

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vaccine vac·cine

Spelling: [vak-seen or, esp. British, vak-seen, -sin]

IPA: /vækˈsin or, esp. British, ˈvæk sin, -sɪn/

Vaccine is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 124 anagrams from letters in vaccine (acceinv).

Definitions for vaccine

noun

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.

adjective

1. of or relating to vaccination.
2. of or relating to vaccinia.
3. of, relating to, or derived from cows.

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

Examples for vaccine

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

A Frankfort man has written a farce comedy called "vaccine."

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

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

One laboratory promised the vaccine in ten days; another said a week.

The public response to the vaccine was little less than monumental.

This latter is the cow-pox, from which Jenner derived the vaccine matter.

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

Phillip, you had the worst cold of your life when you took the vaccine.

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