vaccinize
English
Verb
vaccinize (third-person singular simple present vaccinizes, present participle vaccinizing, simple past and past participle vaccinized)
- (transitive, immunology, archaic) To vaccinate repeatedly until susceptibility to a virus has completely disappeared, as indicated by the complete absence of pustules etc. at the point of application.
- 1883, “Vaccination and Vaccinization”, in Southern Medical Record:
- A series of carefully conducted experiments has convinced him that a not inconsiderable proportion of those vaccinated are not vaccinized.
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