immunisation
Noun: 1. The process of making a person or animal immune to a specific infectious disease, typically through the administration of a vaccine. This process stimulates the body's immune system to develop protection (immunity) against a future infection without causing the disease itself.
The word "immunisation" (also spelled "immunization") is used to describe the medical procedure or public health practice of administering vaccines. It is often discussed in contexts of healthcare, public policy, and personal preventative medicine. - It is commonly used with verbs like receive, get, undergo, offer, promote, and require. - It can be modified by adjectives describing its type (childhood immunisation, routine immunisation) or status (complete immunisation, mandatory immunisation).
- Noun:
- Childhood immunisation against measles is crucial for public health.
- The nurse administered the immunisation quickly and painlessly.
- Public health campaigns have increased the immunisation rate in the region.
- Herd immunisation: A situation where a high percentage of a population is immunised, providing indirect protection to those who are not immune.
- Achieving herd immunisation helps protect vulnerable individuals who cannot receive vaccines.
- Immunize (verb): To make immune, especially by inoculation.
- The vaccine will immunize the child against polio.
- Immunity (noun): The state of being immune from or resistant to a particular disease.
- The vaccine provides long-lasting immunity.
- Vaccination: The act of introducing a vaccine into the body to produce immunity. (Often used interchangeably with "immunisation," though technically vaccination is the administration step, and immunisation is the process of becoming immune.)
- Inoculation: Introducing a pathogen or antigen into a living organism to stimulate immunity.
- Immunisation schedule: The recommended timing for administering vaccines.
- Parents should follow the official immunisation schedule for their children.
- Immunisation record: A document tracking which vaccines a person has received.
- You will need to provide your immunisation record for school enrollment.
- the act of making immune (especially by inoculation)