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vaccine

Vaccine is a 7 letter word which starts with the letter V and ends with the letter E for which we found 3 definitions.

Definition
(a.) Of or pertaining to cows; pertaining to derived from or caused by vaccinia; as vaccine virus; the vaccine disease.
(n.) The virus of vaccinia used in vaccination.
(n.) any preparation used to render an organism immune to some disease by inducing or increasing the natural immunity mechanisms. Prior to 1995 such preparations usually contained killed organisms of the type for which immunity was desired and sometimes used live organisms having attenuated virulence. since that date preparations containing only specific antigenic portions of the pathogenic organism are also used some of which are prepared by genetic engineering techniques.

Syllable Information

The word vaccine is a 7 letter word that has 2 syllable 's . The syllable division for vaccine is: vac-cine


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