English Explanatory Dictionary

vacciolation

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Innoculation with cowpox (the vacciolous virus) in order to provide immunity from smallpox.

Word forms

vacciolation vacciolations

Etymology

Coined by Dr. John Walker in 1802 from vacciolate + -ion.

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