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Princeton's WordNet

  1. inoculating, vaccinatingnoun

    the act of protecting against disease by introducing a vaccine into the body to induce immunity

    "doctors examined the recruits but nurses did the inoculating"

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  1. inoculating

    Inoculating generally refers to the process of introducing a serum, vaccine, or antigenic substance into the body of a person or animal, especially to stimulate the immune system to produce a response to a specific disease. This stimulates the body's immune system to either prevent or fight off that particular disease. It can also refer to introducing microorganisms, bacteria or cells into a growth medium in a laboratory for the purpose of culture growth.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Inoculating

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of inoculating in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of inoculating in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of inoculating in a Sentence

  1. Mark Woolhouse:

    Our results suggest seeking a simple vaccine that could protect cows from East Coast fever by inoculating them with a related but far less harmful parasite, a similar process might be at work in malaria, where infection with the less harmful Plasmodium vivax parasite may protect people from the Plasmodium falciparum parasite.

  2. Russ Mould:

    Once again the optimism generated by the vaccine breakthroughs at the end of 2020 is colliding with the reality of inoculating populations and dealing with the new variants of COVID-19.

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