inoculate

Related to inoculate: inoculum

inoculate (someone) with (something)

To vaccinate someone so that they become immune to a particular disease (named after "with"). The kids have been inoculated against measles, mumps, and rubella with the MMR vaccine.
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inoculate against (something)

To vaccinate someone so that they become immune to a particular disease (named after "against"). A noun or pronoun can be used between "inoculate" and "against." No, I never had chicken pox as a kid, so I've been inoculated against it. The MMR vaccine inoculates children against measles, mumps, and rubella.
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Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

inoculate someone against something

to immunize someone against a disease. We need to inoculate all the children against whooping cough. Have you been inoculated against measles?
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inoculate someone with something

to use a particular substance in immunizing someone against a disease. Donna inoculated Richard and Nancy with yellow fever vaccine for their trip. She also inoculated Sam with something to prevent malaria.
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McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
See also:
  • inoculate (someone) with (something)
  • inoculate with
  • immunize
  • immunize against
  • immunize against (something)
  • inoculate against
  • inoculate against (something)
  • vaccinate against
  • vaccinate against (something)
  • vaccinate for (something)
References in periodicals archive
Scientists from the New Orleansbased Tulane University's School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine will collaborate with Pune- based biotech company Gennova Biopharmaceuticals to produce and test a vaccine that aims to inoculate mosquitoes when they bite people.
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He added: "We've no new information about a threat but are getting ready to inoculate everyone in a few days if necessary."
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Zabdiel Boylston to inoculate the uninfected during a smallpox outbreak in Boston.
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The machines inoculate eggs for broiler chickens, breeder hens and turkeys.
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The colony was used to inoculate three plates containing MEA plus antibiotics.
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To perform controls on our incubator for strep cultures, I use 5% sheep's blood agar (SBA) plates, Streptococcus agalactiae and Streptococcus pyogenes swabs to inoculate, and bacitracin discs.
Answering your questions: incubator controls
You can't use, say, a bean inoculate from the garden store on alfalfa seed.
Alfalfa is pretty tough stuff, but it still needs some care. (Crops & soils)
Farmers buy these bacteria as legume inoculate and apply them to seed just before planting.
Super bacteria boost yields
He said the target for 12-day vaccination campaign, concluding on Oct 27, was to inoculate 19 million children.
Anti-measles drive covers 11.8m kids in six days
To perform controls on our incubator for strep cultures, I use 5% sheep's blood agar plates, S.agalactiae and S.pyogenes swabs to inoculate, and bacitracin discs.
Incubator controls
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu of London and Zabdiel Boylston of Boston borrowed from the folk medicine of Ottoman women and African slaves and injected small amounts of the smallpox virus under the skin of their children to inoculate them.
The Speckled Monster: A Historical Tale of Battling Smallpox
Fifteen distinctive and fast growing rhizobacterial colonies (strains) were chosen to inoculate the Rosa cuttings by dipping in them.
Screening of PGPR Isolates for Plant Growth Promotion of Rosa damascena
Peshawar -- More than 38,000 parents refused to inoculate polio drops to their children in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KPK) in the ongoing Sehat ka Ittehad campaign, local media quoting officials reported on Friday.
Thousands parents deny polio vaccination to their kids in KP