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

1. Taking a vaccine as a precaution against contracting a disease
   "The widespread vax program helped prevent the spread of the virus";
   - inoculation, vaccination, jab [Brit, informal]
    
2. The scar left following inoculation with a vaccine
   "He still had a visible vax scar on his upper arm from childhood";
   - vaccination

Derived forms: vaxes, vaxxed, vaxxing, vaxxes

Type of: cicatrice, cicatrix, immunisation [Brit], immunization, inject, scar, shoot

Encyclopedia: Vax