noun
mass nounTreatment with a vaccine to produce immunity against a disease.
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vaccination against yellow fever is essential’
- ‘if you think you need a flu vaccination, check with your doctor’
- ‘Travel to some parts of the world requires specific vaccinations.’
- ‘Doctors at the meeting expressed concerned over a lack of available vaccinations should an outbreak occur.’
- ‘The animals may be incubating disease at the time of vaccination.’
- ‘Inadequately cleaned vaccine syringes are often responsible for localized infections associated with vaccination.’
- ‘Antibodies are produced by the sow in response to vaccinations or subclinical disease exposure.’