单词 | vaccinifer |
释义 | vaccinifern. Medicine. Now historical. A person or animal that is the source of infective material or virus used in vaccination against smallpox. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > production of disease > [noun] > person or population infecter1509 infector1580 carrier1593 vaccinifer1862 fecundator1883 infective1925 reservoir1939 1862 Med. Times & Gaz. 15 Mar. 271/2 The vaccinifer, to use the appropriate French term [sc. vaccinifère] for the person from whom lymph for vaccination is taken, was one Giovanni Chiabrera, aged 11 months. 1888 Encycl. Brit. XXIV. 24/2 The circumstance that the calf..becomes the vaccinifer, instead of the child. 1947 Public Health Rep. (U.S. Public Health Service) 62 570 Several large albino rabbits weighing from 7 to 10 pounds are used as vaccinifers. 2009 Bull. Hist. Med. 83 179 To avoid the risk of having their children turned into vaccinifers, parents typically hid them from postvaccination inspectors. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2022). < n.1862 |
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