vacciniferousadj.
/ˌvaksᵻˈnɪf(ə)rəs/, U.S. /ˌvæksəˈnɪf(ə)rəs/ 1. Of a person or animal: that acts as the source of infective material or virus in vaccination against smallpox (or, occasionally, other pox diseases). Cf. vaccinifer n. Now historical and rare.
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vectorial1964
1863 Med. Times & Gaz. 18 July 72/1 When the vacciniferous infant is not the subject of hereditary syphilis, it still may become the source of syphilis itself by having been inoculated with vaccine virus contaminated with that poison.
1887 Glasgow Med. Jrnl. 27 180 The vacciniferous heifer..may be placed for two or three consecutive days at the disposal of the medical men of the neighbourhood.
1912 Amer. Vet. Rev. Dec. 255 Camels are excellent vacciniferous animals.
2014 ‘Sasha’ Social Hist. Epidemics Colonial Punjab (e-book, accessed 13 Aug. 2021) iv. 131 In many cases, the mother along with the vacciniferous child was..made to travel for miles.
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1885 A. J. Harries tr. E. Warlomont Man. Animal Vaccination 23 Hence the idea, so long persisted in, of the vacciniferous property of ‘the grease’.
1893 St. Louis Med. & Surg. Jrnl. 65 99 This action may..be utilized in the elaboration of vacciniferous materials effective against such pathogenic microbes.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2022).
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