0 the action of inoculating someone (= giving them a weak form of a disease as protection against it), or something such as an injection that is given in this way:
Edward Jenner proved that inoculation with cowpox protected against small pox.
She wants as many people as possible to receive inoculations.
The new vaccine will appear on the list of required school inoculations.
Contrasting responses to mycorrhizal inoculation and phosphorus availability in seedlings of two tropical rainforest tree species.
The usage of different dosages and inoculation routes may explain this discrepancy.
Experience of other deployments may independently be associated with psychological symptoms, but these data do not support the ' stress inoculation ' hypothesis.
For each of the three treatments (undiluted, 10x2 and 10x3) two rabbits were inoculated by intramuscular inoculation.
Of the 32 cases showing symptoms from four to six months after inoculation, 28 cases (88%) had a rash at the site of inoculation.