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Definition of Inoculate
1. Verb. Introduce an idea or attitude into the mind of. "My teachers inoculated me with their beliefs"
2. Verb. Introduce a microorganism into.
3. Verb. Perform vaccinations or produce immunity in by inoculation. "The nurse vaccinated the children in the school"
Category relationships: Medicine, Practice Of Medicine
Generic synonyms: Inject, Shoot
Derivative terms: Immunization, Inoculant, Inoculating, Inoculation, Inoculator, Vaccinating, Vaccination, Vaccination, Vaccinator, Vaccine
4. Verb. Insert a bud for propagation.
5. Verb. Impregnate with the virus or germ of a disease in order to render immune.
Definition of Inoculate
1. v. t. To bud; to insert, or graft, as the bud of a tree or plant in another tree or plant.
2. v. i. To graft by inserting buds.
Definition of Inoculate
1. Verb. (transitive immunology) To introduce an antigenic substance or vaccine into the body to produce immunity to a specific disease. ¹
2. Verb. (transitive by extension) To safeguard or protect something as if by inoculation. ¹
3. Verb. To add one substance to another. To spike ¹
4. Verb. To graft by inserting buds. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Inoculate
1. [v -LATED, -LATING, -LATES]
Medical Definition of Inoculate
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1. To graft by inserting buds.
2. To communicate disease by inoculation.
1. To bud; to insert, or graft, as the bud of a tree or plant in another tree or plant.
2. To insert a foreign bud into; as, to inoculate a tree.
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