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vaccine 音标拼音: [v ,æks'in] n. 疫苗
a. 疫苗的,牛痘的 疫苗疫苗的,牛痘的 vaccine n 1: immunogen consisting of a suspension of weakened or dead pathogenic cells injected in order to stimulate the production of antibodies [ synonym: { vaccine}, { vaccinum}] Vaccine \ Vac" cine\ ( v[ a^] k" s[ imac] n or v[ a^] k" s[ i^] n; 277), a. [ L. vaccinus, fr. vacca a cow; cf. Skr. v[= a][, c] to bellow, to groan.] 1. Of or pertaining to cows; pertaining to, derived from, or caused by, vaccinia; as, vaccine virus; the vaccine disease. [ 1913 Webster] 2. Of or pertaining to a vaccine or vaccination. [ PJC]
Vaccine \ Vac" cine\ ( v[ a^] k* s[= e] n" or v[ a^] k" s[= e] n), n. 1. The virus of vaccinia used in vaccination. [ 1913 Webster] 2. any preparation used to render an organism immune to some disease, by inducing or increasing the natural immunity mechanisms. Prior to 1995, such preparations usually contained killed organisms of the type for which immunity was desired, and sometimes used live organisms having attenuated virulence. Since that date, preparations containing only specific antigenic portions of the pathogenic organism have also been used. Some of these are prepared by genetic engineering techniques. [ PJC] 3. ( Computers) A program designed to protect a computer from software viruses, by detecting and or eliminating them. [ PJC] 26 Moby Thesaurus words for " vaccine": A, B, T, antitoxin, autogenous vaccine, bang, booster, booster shot, bovine vaccine, fix, hit, humanized vaccine, hypodermic, hypodermic injection, injection, inoculation, jet injection, mainlining, narcotic injection, shooting up, shot, skin- popping, stock vaccine, toxoid, univalent vaccine, vaccination
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