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The inoculation of a person with smallpox with the intention of inducing a mild form of the illness and subsequent immunity to the disease.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, historical, uncountable
Examples
- Variolation is no longer used today. It was replaced by smallpox vaccination, a safer alternative, which in turn led to the development of vaccines against many other diseases.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
the obsolete process of inoculating a susceptible person with material taken from a vesicle of a person who has smallpox
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: variolization
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: inoculating, vaccinating
Etymology tree English variola Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin -ātiōlbor. Old French -ationbor. Middle English -acioun English -ation English variolation From variola + -ation.
Across languages
Translations
4 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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French:
variolisation
— inoculation with smallpox virus
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Italian:
variolizzazione
— inoculation with smallpox virus
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Italian:
vaiolizzazione
— inoculation with smallpox virus
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Persian:
آبلهکوبی
(âbele-kôbi)
— inoculation with smallpox virus
