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Inoculated vs Vaccination - What's the difference?

inoculated | vaccination |

As a verb inoculated

is past tense of inoculate.

As a noun vaccination is

inoculation with a vaccine, in order to protect from a particular disease or strain of disease.

inoculated

English

Verb

(head)
  • (inoculate)

    • inoculate

    English

    Alternative forms

    * innoculate

    Verb

  • (immunology) To introduce an antigenic substance or vaccine into the body, as to produce immunity to a specific disease.
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  • (by extension) To safeguard or protect something as if by inoculation.
  • To add one substance to another; to spike.
    • The culture medium was inoculated with selenium to investigate the rate of uptake.
  • To graft by inserting buds.
    • to inoculate the bud of one tree or plant into another
    to inoculate a tree
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  • (figurative) To introduce into the mind (used especially of harmful ideas or principles); to imbue.
    • to inoculate someone with treason or infidelity
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    • Related terms

    * inoculant * inoculation * inoculative * inoculator * inoculum

    See also

    * immunize / immunise * vaccinate

    External links

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    vaccination

    English

    (wikipedia vaccination)

    Noun

    (-)
  • Inoculation with a vaccine, in order to protect from a particular disease or strain of disease.
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    Related terms

    * vaccination mark