Definition of vaccination Vaccination

/væksʌnejˈʃʌn/ - [vaksuneyshun] - vac•ci•na•tion

We found 8 definitions of vaccination from 7 different sources.

What does vaccination mean?

WordNet

Noun Plural: vaccinations
vaccination - the scar left following inoculation with a vaccine
		cicatrice, cicatrix, scar a mark left (usually on the skin) by the healing of injured tissue
vaccination - taking a vaccine as a precaution against contracting a disease
		inoculation
		immunisation, immunization the act of making immune (especially by inoculation)

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Wiktionary

vaccination (Noun)
Inoculation with a vaccine in order to protect a particular disease or strain of disease.

Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘

vaccination (n.)
The act, art, or practice of vaccinating, or inoculating with the cowpox, in order to prevent or mitigate an attack of smallpox. Cf. Inoculation.

OmegaWiki DictionaryOmegaWiki Dictionary Ω

vaccination
Inoculation with a vaccine in order to protect a particular disease or strain of disease.

Foolish DictionaryThe Foolish Dictionary 🤡

vaccination
Where "jabbing the needle" is never a vice.

Wikipedia

Vaccination means giving someone a substance that makes an immune system reaction. The immune system is the way a body fights infection. The immune system's reaction makes someone less likely to get that infection.

If the vaccinated person get exposed to the virus or bacteria that causes the disease, the person will fight it and not get sick.

Another word used for vaccination is immunization. These words mean things that are a little different. Vaccination is when a person is "given" something to make the immune system learn to fight an infectious disease. Immunization is when a persons immune system learns to fight an infection. Immunization can happen from vaccination. But immunization can also happen from getting the "infection". For example, a person can be immune to hepatitis B if he gets sick with hepatitis B. After a person gets hepatitis B and then gets well, he is immunized from getting it again. A person can also be immunized from to hepatitis B by taking the hepatitis B vaccination.

So vaccination and immunization have meanings that are a little different. But when people say these words, they usually mean the same thing. People say immunization to mean the same thing as vaccination.

Where vaccination comes from.

The first use of the term "vaccine" is credited to Louis Pasteur. The word is derived from the Latin "vacca", meaning cow. A virus that mainly affects cows (Cowpox) was used in the first scientific demonstration that giving a person one virus could protect