Definitions for vaccines

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vaccines vac·cine

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

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

Vaccines is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 236 anagrams from letters in vaccines (acceinsv).

Definitions for vaccines

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 vaccines

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 vaccines

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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