Vaccine vs. Injection

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.

Injectionnoun

The act of injecting, or something that is injected.

Injectionnoun

A specimen prepared by injection.

Injectionnoun

(category theory) A morphism from either one of the two components of a coproduct to that coproduct.

Injectionnoun

(construction) The act of inserting materials like concrete grout or gravel by using high pressure pumps.

Injectionnoun

(figuratively) The supply of additional funding to a person or a business.

Injectionnoun

(mathematics) A relation on sets (X,Y) that associates each element of Y with at most one element of X.

Injectionnoun

(programming) The insertion of program code into an application, URL, hardware, etc.; especially when malicious or when the target is not designed for such insertion.

Injectionnoun

(space) The act of putting a spacecraft into a particular orbit, especially for changing a stable orbit into a transfer orbit, e.g. trans-lunar injection.

Injectionnoun

(set theory) A function that maps distinct x in the domain to distinct y in the codomain; formally, a f: X → Y such that f(a) = f(b) implies a = b for any a, b in the domain.

Injectionnoun

Something injected subcutaneously, intravenously, or intramuscularly by use of a syringe and a needle.

Injectionnoun

(steam engines) The act of throwing cold water into a condenser to produce a vacuum.

Injectionnoun

(steam engines) The cold water thrown into a condenser to produce a vacuum.

Injectionnoun

The act of injecting or throwing in; - applied particularly to the forcible insertion of a liquid or gas, by means of a syringe, pump, etc.

Injectionnoun

That which is injected; especially, a liquid inserted thrown into a cavity of the body by a syringe or pipe; a clyster; an enema.

Injectionnoun

The act or process of filling vessels, cavities, or tissues with a fluid or other substance.

Injectionnoun

The act of throwing cold water into a condenser to produce a vacuum.

Injectionnoun

the forceful insertion of a substance under pressure

Injectionnoun

any solution that is injected (as into the skin)

Injectionnoun

the act of putting a liquid into the body by means of a syringe;