单词 | prevaccination |
释义 | prevaccinationadj. 1. Occurring before the time when vaccination against smallpox became available. ΚΠ 1886 Times 16 Dec. 6/6 The highest mortality from smallpox ever alleged to have occurred in pre-vaccination days..is 5,000 per million per annum. 1905 Biometrika 4 320 In prevaccination days statistics were rarely kept with any accuracy. 2004 J. Buchanan Road to Valley Forge x. 193 In prevaccination years there was only way to become immune to smallpox: to catch it and survive. 2. Medicine and Biology. Occurring, administered, or obtained before an instance or period of vaccination. ΚΠ 1957 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 43 793 (heading) Prevaccination titer. 1967 Canad. Med. Assoc. Jrnl. 29 July 225/1 With the intradermal method, a single test with 5TU can be used as a pre-vaccination test. 2001 Evolution 55 1111/1 Genetic diversity in the bacterial population..slowly increased to prevaccination levels. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1886 |
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