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  2. Inoculation - Wikipedia

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    Inoculation is the act of implanting a pathogen or other microbe or virus into a person or other organism. It is a method of artificially inducing immunity against ...

  3. List of words having different meanings in American and ...

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    different or interesting, exceptional; synonym for cool (short for "radical") [43] [56] [57] railroad tramway (obsolete) (v.) to coerce to convict with undue haste or with insufficient evidence the general term for the system of mass transit using trains running on rails: see usage of the terms railroad and railway (v.) to work on the railroad

  4. Thesaurus - Wikipedia

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    Thesaurus Linguae Latinae. A modern english thesaurus. A thesaurus (pl.: thesauri or thesauruses), sometimes called a synonym dictionary or dictionary of synonyms, is a reference work which arranges words by their meanings (or in simpler terms, a book where one can find different words with similar meanings to other words), [1] [2] sometimes as a hierarchy of broader and narrower terms ...

  5. Cat-scratch disease - Wikipedia

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    Cat-scratch fever, felinosis, Teeny's disease, inoculation lymphoreticulosis, subacute regional lymphadenitis [1] An enlarged lymph node in the armpit region of a person with cat-scratch disease, and wounds from a cat scratch on the hand. Specialty: Infectious disease: Symptoms: Bump at the site of the bite or scratch, swollen and painful lymph ...

  6. Inoculum - Wikipedia

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    In biology, inoculum (pl.: inocula) refers to the source material used for inoculation. Inoculum may refer to: In medicine, material that is the source of the inoculation in a vaccine; In microbiology, propagules: cells, tissue, or viruses that are used to inoculate a new culture

  7. Autoinoculation - Wikipedia

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    Autoinoculation is derived from the Latin root words "autos" and "inoculate" that mean "self implanting" or "self infection" or "implanting something from oneself". [1] [2] Autoinoculation can refer to both beneficial medical procedures (e.g. vaccination) as well as non-beneficial or harmful natural processes (e.g. infection or disease).

  8. Glossary of medicine - Wikipedia

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    Aarskog–Scott syndrome – (AAS) A rare, inherited (X-linked) disease characterized by short stature, facial abnormalities, skeletal and genital anomalies. [1]Abdomen – The part of the body between the chest and pelvis, which contains most of the tubelike organs of the digestive tract, as well as several solid organs.

  9. Immunization - Wikipedia

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    Dr. Schreiber of San Augustine giving a typhoid inoculation at a rural school, San Augustine County, Texas.Transfer from U.S. Office of War Information, 1944.. Immunization, or immunisation, is the process by which an individual's immune system becomes fortified against an infectious agent (known as the immunogen).