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RING VACCINATION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Administering vaccine only to people in close contact with an isolated infected patient; prevents the spread of a highly infectious disease by surrounding the patient with a ring of immunization
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("ring vaccination" is a kind of...):
inoculating; vaccinating (the act of protecting against disease by introducing a vaccine into the body to induce immunity)
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