Meaning & use
inoculation
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The act of introducing a vaccine or antigen into the body to build immunity against a disease.
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Inoculation against measles has drastically reduced cases of the disease worldwide.
Farmers use inoculation to protect their livestock from common infections.
A note on using this word
Inoculation is sometimes used figuratively, as in "psychological inoculation," to describe exposing people to a weaker version of an idea to build resistance to it.
Words with a similar meaning
vaccinationimmunization
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