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The act or art of inoculating trees or plants.

Inoculation of a person with virus from his own body.

s), the spores of which constitute the contagious matter. It may be transmitted to man by inoculation. The spleen becomes greatly enlarged and filled with bacteria. Called also splenic fever.

ing germs. Many germ diseases are not contagious, some special method of transmission or inoculation of the germs being required.

The act or process of grafting by inoculation; budding. [Obs.] Holland.

The disease caused by a bite form, or inoculation with the saliva of, a rabid creature, of which the chief symptoms are, a sense of dryness and construction in the throat, causing difficulty in deglutition, and a marked heightening of reflex excitability, producing convulsions whenever the patient attempts to swallow,…

Exempt; protected by inoculation. -- Im*mu"nize, v. t.

pable of being inoculated; capable of communicating disease, or of being communicated, by inoculation.

To communicate disease by inoculation.

One who inoculates; one who propagates plants or diseases by inoculation.

tment, devised by Pasteur, for preventing certain diseases, as hydrophobia, by successive inoculations with an attenuated virus of gradually increasing strength.

The inoculation of a cow with human vaccine virus.

Inoculation with the syphilitic virus, especially when employed as a preventive measure, like vaccination.

r inoculating with the cowpox, in order to prevent or mitigate an attack of smallpox. Cf. Inoculation.

Inoculation with smallpox.

The smallpox as modified by previous inoculation or vaccination.