VACCINATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does vaccination mean? 

• VACCINATION (noun)
  The noun VACCINATION has 2 senses:

1. taking a vaccine as a precaution against contracting a disease

2. the scar left following inoculation with a vaccine

  Familiarity information: VACCINATION used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• VACCINATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Taking a vaccine as a precaution against contracting a disease

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

inoculation; vaccination

Hypernyms ("vaccination" is a kind of...):

immunisation; immunization (the act of making immune (especially by inoculation))

Derivation:

vaccinate (perform vaccinations or produce immunity in by inoculation)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The scar left following inoculation with a vaccine

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("vaccination" is a kind of...):

cicatrice; cicatrix; scar (a mark left (usually on the skin) by the healing of injured tissue)

Derivation:

vaccinate (perform vaccinations or produce immunity in by inoculation)

 Context examples 

Upon vaccination, the DCs may stimulate the immune system to mount an antigen-specific cytotoxic T-lymphocyte (CTL) response against the melanoma antigens.

(Autologous TriMix-DC Melanoma Vaccine, NCI Thesaurus)

Vaccination with autologous dendritic cell-autologous tumor mRNA-human CD40L vaccine may elicit a cytotoxic T cell response against tumor cells from which the autologous tumor mRNA was derived.

(Autologous Dendritic Cell-Autologous Tumor mRNA-Human CD40L Vaccine, NCI Thesaurus)

The age of the subject at the time of the vaccination.

(Age at Time of Vaccination, NCI Thesaurus)

It usually associated with an acute infection or vaccination.

(Acute Hemorrhagic Leukoencephalitis, NCI Thesaurus)

Vaccination with baculovirus CEA protein vaccine may stimulate the host immune system to mount a cytotoxic T lymphocyte (CTL) response against CEA positive cells, resulting in decreased tumor growth.

(Baculovirus CEA Protein Vaccine, NCI Thesaurus)

Vaccination with MUC1-KLH conjugate vaccine may stimulate humoral and cytotoxic T-lymphocyte (CTL) responses against tumor cells expressing the MUC1 antigen.

(MUC1-KLH Conjugate Vaccine, NCI Thesaurus)

Vaccination with monoclonal antibody B43.13 may stimulate a host cytotoxic immune response against tumor cells that express CA125.

(Oregovomab, NCI Thesaurus)

Vaccination with this peptide vaccine may elicit strong humoral and cellular immune responses to NY-ESO-1-expressing cancers.

(NY-ESO-1b Peptide Vaccine, NCI Thesaurus)

Vaccination with NY-ESO-1 peptide vaccine may stimulate the host immune system to mount a humoral and cytotoxic T lymphocyte (CTL) response to cells expressing NY-ESO-1 antigen, resulting in tumor cell lysis.

(NY-ESO-1 Peptide Vaccine, NCI Thesaurus)

Autologous vaccination with these altered dendritic cells may stimulate the host immune system to mount a cytotoxic T lymphocyte (CTL) response against tumor cells positive for NA17, resulting in decreased tumor growth.

(NA17 Peptide (Amino acid sequence VLPDVFIRCV), NCI Thesaurus)