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vaccine

vac·cine

vaccine

 
 
pronunciation:
vaek sin
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part of speech: noun
definition: a substance used to protect people and animals from very serious diseases. Vaccines contain germs of a particular disease--these germs been killed or changed in a certain way in a laboratory to make them safe. A vaccine goes into a person's body in a shot that is given by a doctor or nurse. After a vaccine is put into a person's body, that person will not get that disease or will get only a mild case.
Vaccines have saved the lives of millions of people since they were invented.Pet dogs get a vaccine every few years that prevents them from getting a serious disease called rabies. They could get rabies from the bite of a wild animal that has the disease.
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adjective + (n.)vaccine adverse, contaminated, developing, edible, effective, experimental, improved, injected, nasal, oral, preventive, promising, sufficient, unlike
verb + (n.)vaccine approve, deliver, develop, infect, inject, license, manufacture, prescribe, produce, receive, recommend, ship, test, vaccinate
(n.)vaccine + verb administer, cause, contain, contaminate, cure, distribute, immunize, prevent, protect, stimulate, target
noun + (n.)vaccine Help anthrax, antibiotic, availability, batch, bulk, cancer, chickenpox, childhood, combination, distribution, dose, drug, effectiveness, epidemic, flu, influenza, injection, malaria, mandate, measles, medicine, mercury, pneumonia, polio, rabies, reaction, search, shot, spray, swine, tetanus  [See all][See only the most frequent]
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