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POLIOVIRUS VACCINE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Vaccine prepared from poliovirus to provide immunity to poliomyelitis
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("poliovirus vaccine" is a kind of...):
vaccine; vaccinum (immunogen consisting of a suspension of weakened or dead pathogenic cells injected in order to stimulate the production of antibodies)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "poliovirus vaccine"):
OPV; oral poliovirus vaccine; Sabin vaccine; TOPV; trivalent live oral poliomyelitis vaccine (an oral vaccine (containing live but weakened poliovirus) that is given to provide immunity to poliomyelitis)
IPV; Salk vaccine (a poliovirus vaccine consisting of inactivated polio virus that is injected subcutaneously to provide immunity to poliomyelitis)
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