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/ˌɪˈnɑkjəˌɫeɪt/
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[ UK /ɪnˈɒkjʊlˌeɪt/ ]
[ UK /ɪnˈɒkjʊlˌeɪt/ ]
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perform vaccinations or produce immunity in by inoculation
The nurse vaccinated the children in the school
We vaccinate against scarlet fever - impregnate with the virus or germ of a disease in order to render immune
- introduce a microorganism into
- insert a bud for propagation
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introduce an idea or attitude into the mind of
My teachers inoculated me with their beliefs
How To Use inoculate In A Sentence
- However young, he had to be given the courtesies due a dragonrider, so over klah and some of Lady Gana's excellent wine cake, he told us that runnerbeasts also were dying of the plague, and needed to be inoculated. Artichoke
- Vaccination programmes are being carried out in schools to inoculate children who have not been taken to their doctor for the injection.
- Blood from a guinea pig who has contracted inapparent typhus will always produce pyretic typhus in another guinea pig if the dose inoculated is sufficient. Charles Nicolle - Nobel Lecture
- About 50 million wet tons of alfalfa are ensiled annually in the United States, and 30-50 percent of this tonnage is inoculated at a cost of about $1 per ton.
- The punctured part on a boy's arm (who was inoculated with fresh limpid virus) on the sixth day, instead of shewing a beginning vesicle, which is usual in the cow-pox at that period, was encrusted over with a rugged, amber-coloured scab. The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology)
- Lebailly and I then went on to demonstrate that inapparent primary infection typhus, which is exceptional in inoculated guinea pigs, is the only form which the disease takes experimentally in the rat and the mouse. Charles Nicolle - Nobel Lecture
- The threat of terrorists waging biological warfare on Britain was starkly underlined last night when the Government announced that it was acquiring enough smallpox vaccine to inoculate the entire population.
- Inoculated seedlings were misted every 20 seconds for 2 days in a mist chamber and then transferred to the greenhouse.
- But in my twenties the need to be prepared for the unexpected was not an issue, even without a stitch of makeup and tousled just woke up hair, my radiant youth inoculated me about worrying about […] All Things Girl » All Things Girl » 2010 » March
- Examine material from any caseous glands microscopically and inoculate freely on to Dorset's egg medium. The Elements of Bacteriological Technique A Laboratory Guide for Medical, Dental, and Technical Students. Second Edition Rewritten and Enlarged.