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

1. (medicine) perform vaccinations or produce immunity in by inoculation
   "The nurse vaccinated the children in the school"; "We vaccinate against scarlet fever";
   - immunize, immunise [Brit], inoculate, jab [Brit, informal], vax [informal]

Type of: inject, protection, shoot

Encyclopedia: Vaccinating