Serum vs. Vaccine

Serumnoun

The clear yellowish liquid obtained upon separating whole blood into its solid and liquid components after it has been allowed to clot. Also called blood serum.

Serumnoun

Blood serum from the tissues of immunized animals, containing antibodies and used to transfer immunity to another individual, called antiserum.

Serumnoun

A watery liquid from animal tissue, especially one that moistens the surface of serous membranes or that is exuded by such membranes when they become inflamed, such as in edema or a blister.

Serumnoun

The watery portion of certain animal fluids, as blood, milk, etc; whey.

Serumnoun

(skincare) An intensive moisturising product to be applied after cleansing but before a general moisturiser.

Serumnoun

The watery portion of certain animal fluids, as blood, milk, etc.

Serumnoun

watery fluid of the blood that resembles plasma but contains fibrinogen

Vaccinenoun

(immunology) A substance given to stimulate the body's production of antibodies and provide immunity against a disease without causing the disease itself in the treatment, prepared from the agent that causes the disease, or a synthetic substitute.

Vaccineadjective

Of or pertaining to cows; pertaining to, derived from, or caused by, vaccinia; as, vaccine virus; the vaccine disease.

Vaccineadjective

Of or pertaining to a vaccine or vaccination.

Vaccinenoun

The virus of vaccinia used in vaccination.

Vaccinenoun

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 have also been used. Some of these are prepared by genetic engineering techniques.

Vaccinenoun

A program designed to protect a computer from software viruses, by detecting and or eliminating them.

Vaccinenoun

immunogen consisting of a suspension of weakened or dead pathogenic cells injected in order to stimulate the production of antibodies

Vaccine

A vaccine is a biological preparation that provides active acquired immunity to a particular infectious disease. A vaccine typically contains an agent that resembles a disease-causing microorganism and is often made from weakened or killed forms of the microbe, its toxins, or one of its surface proteins.