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Princeton's WordNet
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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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.
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Inoculating
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of inoculating in Chaldean Numerology is: 3
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The numerical value of inoculating in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8
Examples of inoculating in a Sentence
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.
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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