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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Vaccine \Vac"cine\, a. [L. vaccinus fr vacca a cow; cf Skr.
v[=a]c to bellow, to groan.]
Of or pertaining to cows; pertaining to derived from or
caused by vaccinia; as vaccine virus; the vaccine disease.
-- n. The virus of vaccinia used in vaccination.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
vaccine
n : a suspension of weakened or dead pathogenic cells injected
in order to stimulate the production of antibodies
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