Look up: vaccine

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   Vaccine
   A preparation of dead or weakened pathogen, or of derived antigenic determinants, that is used to induce formation of antibodies or immunity against the pathogen. (See Polyvalent vaccine, Subunit vaccine.)
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   Vaccine
   A preparation of a pathogenic micro-organism or virus, which has been killed or attenuated so as to lose its virulence but which carries antigens. When injected into a living animal the immune system is stimulated to produce antibodies to counteract the antigens. The antibodies remain in the living system thus providing immunity against any subsequent potentially pathogenic infection by the same organism.
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   vaccine
   [Noun] A medicine, usually in the form of an injection, which protects a person against diseases such as measles or tetanus.
   Example: Children are given the polio vaccine at around 3 months old and again just before they start school.
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   Vaccine
   a planned exposure to an antigen in order that memory B lymphocytes can retain a memory for it. In practice the organism carrying the antigen is either killed or modified so that it does not cause the disease. When encountered again, the antigen is recognised and there will be a rapid production of antibodies. For example smallpox, polio, measles. Influenza vaccines are less effective as new strains of the virus are always occurring which do not have recognisable antigens.
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   Vaccine
   An injection that helps the body build immunity to disease.
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   vaccine
   [n] - immunogen consisting of a suspension of weakened or dead pathogenic cells injected in order to stimulate the production of antibodies
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   vaccine
   A vaccine is a preparation used to immunise a person against a specific disease.
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   Vaccine
   Use of antigens to cause the body to produce antibodies (see 'desensitisation').
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   Vaccine
   a preparation of weakened micro-organisms given to create resistance to a certain disease
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    vaccine
    generic term for any preparation employed to produce active immunity Category: Medicine • in the context of computer security,a software protection system that can 'inoculate' a computer against so-called virus programs Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)
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    vaccine
    An antigen preparation that when injected will elicit the expansion of one or more clones of responding lymphocytes so that immune protection is provided against a disease.
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    vaccine
    <pharmacology> A suspension of attenuated or killed microorganisms (bacteria, viruses or rickettsiae), administered for the prevention, amelioration or treatment of infectious diseases. ... Origin: L. Vaccinus ... (18 Nov 1997) ...
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    vaccine
    vaccinum noun immunogen consisting of a suspension of weakened or dead pathogenic cells injected in order to stimulate the production of antibodies
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    Vaccine
    A `vaccine` is an antigenic preparation used to establish immunity to a disease. The term derives from Edward Jenner's use of cowpox (`vacca` means cow in Latin), which, when administered to humans, provided them protection against smallpox, the work which Louis Pasteur and others carried on. Vaccines are based on the concept of variolation originating in China, in which a person is deliberately infected with a weak form of smallpox. Jenner reali...
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    vaccine
    (vak-sēn´) a suspension of attenuated or killed microorganisms (viruses, bacteria, or rickettsiae), administered for prevention, amelioration, or treatment of infectious diseases.
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    Vaccine
    • (a.) Of or pertaining to cows; pertaining to, derived from, or caused by, vaccinia; as, vaccine virus; the vaccine disease. • (n.) 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 f...
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    vaccine
    suspension of weakened, killed, or fragmented microorganisms or toxins or of antibodies or lymphocytes that is administered primarily to prevent ... [39 related articles]
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    vaccine
    (L. vaccinus) a suspension of attenuated or killed microorganisms (bacteria, viruses, or rickettsiae), administered for the prevention, amelioration or treatment of infectious diseases.
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    vaccine
    vaccine 1. A suspension of deactivated, or killed microorganisms, (bacteria, viruses, or rickettsiae), or of antigenic proteins derived from them, administered for the prevention, amelioration, or treatment of infectious diseases. 2. Etymology: derived from, pertaining to, or relating to, cows. From Latin vaccinus 'pertaining to cows', from vacca, 'cow' (...
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    vaccine
    Originally, the live vaccine (vaccinia, cowpox) virus inoculated in the skin as prophylaxis against smallpox and obtained from the skin of calves inoculated with seed virus. Usage has extended the meaning to include essentially any preparation intended for active immunologic prophylaxis; e.g., preparations of killed microbes of virulent strains or ...
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    Vaccine
    - a planned exposure to an antigen in order that memory B lymphocytes can retain a memory for it. In practice the organism carrying the antigen is either killed or modified so that it does not cause the disease. When encountered again, the antigen is recognised and there will be a rapid production of antibodies. For example smallpox, polio, measles...
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    vaccine
    Most vaccines help prevent disease by mimicking the immune system's natural response to infection. In the body, cells called macrophages engulf invading microbes, such as viruses, and sound the alarm by showing pieces of the invader to T cells and B cells. B cells produce defensive molecules called ...
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    vaccine
    vaccine: see vaccination.
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