IMMUNIZATION
Dictionary entry overview: What does immunization mean? • IMMUNIZATION (noun)
The noun IMMUNIZATION has 1 sense:
1. the act of making immune (especially by inoculation)
Familiarity information: IMMUNIZATION used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• IMMUNIZATION (noun)
Meaning:
The act of making immune (especially by inoculation)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Synonyms:
immunisation; immunization
Hypernyms ("immunization" is a kind of...):
protection (the activity of protecting someone or something)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "immunization"):
inoculation; vaccination (taking a vaccine as a precaution against contracting a disease)
sensitisation; sensitising; sensitization; sensitizing (rendering an organism sensitive to a serum by a series of injections)
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