a substance or group of substances meant to cause the immune system to respond to a tumor or to microorganisms, such as bacteria or viruses. a vaccine can help the body recognize and destroy cancer cells or microorganisms.
出典:Wiktionary
出典:『Wiktionary』 (2026/04/03 16:27 UTC 版)
Learned borrowing from Latin vaccīnus (“of or derived from a cow”), from vacca (“cow (female cattle)”) + -īnus (suffix meaning ‘of or pertaining to’ forming adjectives). Sense 1 refers to the early use of the cowpox virus as a vaccination against smallpox: see New Latin variolae vaccīnae (“cowpox”, plural, literally “infectious diseases of cattle causing pustules”), coined by the British physician and scientist Edward Jenner (1749–1823).
vaccine (not comparable)
The verb is derived from the noun.
vaccine (countable and uncountable, plural vaccines)
vaccine (third-person singular simple present vaccines, present participle vaccining, simple past and past participle vaccined)
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