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VARIOLATION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The obsolete process of inoculating a susceptible person with material taken from a vesicle of a person who has smallpox
Synonyms:
variolation; variolization
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("variolation" 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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