Dictionary Entry
vaccine
vaccine is a 7-letter English word with 4 senses as adjective and noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Of or pertaining to cows; pertaining to, derived from, or caused by, vaccinia; as, vaccine virus; the vaccine disease. Face value is 14 in Scrabble and 18 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
7 letters · Scrabble 14 · Words With Friends 18 · 4 senses
Definitions
- 1adjective
Of or pertaining to cows; pertaining to, derived from, or caused by, vaccinia; as, vaccine virus; the vaccine disease.
- 2noun
The virus of vaccinia used in vaccination.
- 3noun
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.
- 4noun
immunogen consisting of a suspension of weakened or dead pathogenic cells injected in order to stimulate the production of antibodies
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