IMMUNISATION

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

The act of making immune (especially by inoculation)

Synonyms:

immunisation; immunization

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("immunisation" is a kind of...):

protection (the activity of protecting someone or something)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "immunisation"):

inoculation; vaccination (taking a vaccine as a precaution against contracting a disease)

sensitisation; sensitising; sensitization; sensitizing (rendering an organism sensitive to a serum by a series of injections)