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Glossary of Immunology Terms
beginning with letter V
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vaccinal
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adjective
  1. (medicine) Of or relating to vaccine or vaccination
  2. (medicine) Caused by vaccination
vaccinate
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verb (vaccinat, ing)
  1. Treat with a vaccine to produce immunity against a disease.
vaccination
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noun
  1. Inoculation with a vaccine in order to protect a particular disease or strain of disease
vaccine
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noun
  1. (immunology) A substance given to stimulate the body's production of antibodies and provide immunity against a disease, prepared from the agent that causes the disease, or a synthetic substitute.
valence
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noun (rfc-level, Noun at L4+ not in L3 POS section)
(valencies, pl2=valences)
  1. (linguistics) The number of arguments that a verb can have (e.g. intransitive verbs only have one, transitive verbs have two, etc).
  2. (chemistry) The combining capacity of an atom, radical or functional group determined by the number of electrons that it will lose, gain, or share when it combines with other atoms etc
  3. (chemistry) The number of binding sites of a molecule, such as an antibody or antigen
  4. (psychology) A one-dimensional value assigned to an object, situation, or state, that can usually be positive or negative

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