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  • English Word Vaccina Definition Vaccinia.
  • English Word Vaccinal Definition Of or pertaining to vaccinia or vaccination.
  • English Word Vaccinate Definition To inoculate with the cowpox by means of a virus, called vaccine, taken either directly or indirectly from cows.
  • English Word Vaccinated Definition of Vaccinate
  • English Word Vaccinating Definition of Vaccinate
  • English Word Vaccination Definition The act, art, or practice of vaccinating, or inoculating with the cowpox, in order to prevent or mitigate an attack of smallpox. Cf. Inoculation.
  • English Word Vaccinator Definition One who, or that which, vaccinates.
  • English Word Vaccine Definition Of or pertaining to cows; pertaining to, derived from, or caused by, vaccinia; as, vaccine virus; the vaccine disease.
  • English Word Vaccine Definition The virus of vaccinia used in vaccination.
  • English Word Vaccine Definition any preparation used to render an organism immune to some disease, by inducing or increasing the natural immunity mechanisms. Prior to 1995, such preparations usually contained killed organisms of the type for which immunity was desired, and sometimes used live organisms having attenuated virulence. since that date, preparations containing only specific antigenic portions of the pathogenic organism are also used, some of which are prepared by genetic engineering techniques.
  • English Word Vaccinia Definition Cowpox; vaccina. See Cowpox.
  • English Word Vaccinist Definition A vaccinator.
  • English Word Vaccinium Definition A genus of ericaceous shrubs including the various kinds of blueberries and the true cranberries.
  • English Word Vacher Definition A keeper of stock or cattle; a herdsman.
  • English Word Vachery Definition An inclosure for cows.
  • English Word Vachery Definition A dairy.
  • English Word Vacillancy Definition The quality or state of being vacillant, or wavering.
  • English Word Vacillant Definition Vacillating; wavering; fluctuating; irresolute.
  • English Word Vacillate Definition To fluctuate in mind or opinion; to be unsteady or inconstant; to waver.
  • English Word Vacillate Definition To move one way and the other; to reel or stagger; to waver.
  • English Word Vacillated Definition of Vacillate
  • English Word Vacillating Definition Inclined to fluctuate; wavering.
  • English Word Vacillating Definition of Vacillate
  • English Word Vacillation Definition The act of vacillating; a moving one way and the other; a wavering.
  • English Word Vacillatory Definition Inclined to vacillate; wavering; irresolute.
  • English Word Vacua Definition of Vacuum
  • English Word Vacuate Definition To make void, or empty.
  • English Word Vacuation Definition The act of emptying; evacuation.
  • English Word Vacuist Definition One who holds the doctrine that the space between the bodies of the universe, or the molecules and atoms of matter., is a vacuum; -- opposed to plenist.
  • English Word Vacuity Definition Want of reality; inanity; nihility.