单词 | vaccinable |
释义 | vaccinableadj. 1. That is eligible or suitable for vaccination; that can be vaccinated. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > immunoprophylaxis > [adjective] > relating to inoculation or vaccination > inoculated or vaccinated > capable of being vaccinable1866 1866 Med. Times & Gaz. 14 Apr. 395/1 It is argued that if every Medical man..were to receive payment from the State for every patient whom he successfully vaccinated, that the natural impulse to look after his own interests would induce every man to hunt up and vaccinate every vaccinable child. 1887 Trans. Epidemiol. Soc. 1885–6 5 115 We may reckon four children vaccinable from a tube. 1901 Edinb. Med. Jrnl. 10 268 For 1896 the ‘vaccinable’ births were 914,205. 2003 E. Etchells in J. Harrison et al. Rebuilding Trust in Healthcare i. 11 My godchild, a former ward sister who is now the mother of a child of vaccinable age, was even more confused as to the right thing to do. 2. That can be prevented or mitigated by vaccination. ΚΠ 1885 Pinckney (Michigan) Disp. 11 June A good many medical gentlemen..have been expressing the belief recently that cholera is not a vaccinable disease. 1993 N. Myers Ultimate Security viii. 127 By the mid-1980s the government realized that more children were dying from vaccinable diseases than were being killed or injured from more than $100 million worth of bullets, bombs, and shells each year. 2018 Harlow Star 13 Sept. 16/1 Some time ago, my close friend's daughter caught a vaccinable strain of meningitis. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2022; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < adj.1866 |
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