LekhoriLekhoriOf, pertaining to, caused by, or characteristic of cowpox.
Of or pertaining to cowpox as a source of material for vaccination against smallpox; also, of or pertaining to such material used for vaccination.
I will call upon them: they are healthy children, we can have the vaccine infection from them, and I will inoculate the boy myself.
Of, pertaining to, or derived from cattle.
[M]y play could not have been written but for the work done by Sir Almroth Wright in the theory and practice of securing immunization from bacterial diseases by the inoculation of "vaccines" made of their own bacteria: a practice incorrectly called vaccinetherapy (there is nothing vaccine about it) apparently because it is what vaccination ought to be and is not.
The process of vaccination; immunization, inoculation.
My dog has had two vaccines this year.
The material taken from cowpox pustules used for vaccination against smallpox.
The disease cowpox, especially as a source of material for vaccination against smallpox.
PIE word *woḱéh₂ Learned borrowing from Latin vaccīnus (“of or derived from a cow”), from vacca (“cow (female cattle)”) + -īnus (suffix meaning ‘of or pertaining to’ forming adjectives). Sense 1 refe...
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