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Noun: vaccinating  'vak-si,ney-ting
  1. The act of protecting against disease by introducing a vaccine into the body to induce immunity
    "doctors examined the recruits but nurses did the vaccinating";
    - inoculating
Verb: vaccinate  'vak-si,neyt
  1. (medicine) perform vaccinations or produce immunity in by inoculation
    "We vaccinate against scarlet fever"; "The nurse vaccinated the children in the school";
    - immunize, immunise [Brit], inoculate, vax [informal], jab [Brit, informal]

Type of: inject, protection, shoot

Encyclopedia: Vaccinating

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