VARIOLATION

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

The obsolete process of inoculating a susceptible person with material taken from a vesicle of a person who has smallpox

Synonyms:

variolation; variolization

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("variolation" is a kind of...):

inoculating; vaccinating (the act of protecting against disease by introducing a vaccine into the body to induce immunity)

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