vaccination

Inoculation with a vaccine in order to protect against a particular disease.

A scar left on the skin by vaccinating.

In medicine, inoculation with vaccine, or the virus of cowpox, as a preventive of smallpox; in an extended sense, inoculation with the virus of any specific disease.

The act, art, or practice of vaccinating, or inoculating with the cowpox, in order to prevent or mitigate an attack of smallpox. Cf. inoculation.

Any inoculation intended to raise immunity to a disease.

Inoculation with a vaccine in order to protect a particular disease or strain of disease

the scar left following inoculation with a vaccine

taking a vaccine as a precaution against contracting a disease