Vaccinia Definition

văk-sĭnē-ə
noun

Cowpox.

Webster's New World

(medicine) An infection of cowpox; or the virus which causes this infection.

Wiktionary
Synonyms:
  • variola vaccina
  • variola vaccinia
  • variola vaccine
  • vaccina
  • cowpox

Origin of Vaccinia

  • New Latin vaccīnia from Latin vaccīnus of cows vaccine

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From the genus name Vaccinia

    From Wiktionary

Vaccinia Sentence Examples

  • Progeny vaccinia and human cytomegalovirus particles utilize early endosomal cisternae for their envelopes.

  • One experimental approach has used a virus called vaccinia into which the gene for PSA had been cloned.

  • Regulation of plaque size and host range by a vaccinia virus gene related to complement system proteins.

  • The project will start by looking at the vaccinia type I topoisomerase enzyme.

  • Vaccinia infection of cells can confer protection from IFN on other viruses, e.g. Picornaviruses.

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VVAVAC

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