immunisation

nounC1Very rare — outside the 30,000 commonest English words, so you will meet it in writing rather than in speech — immune sits at #3,962leans written

Other forms: immunisations

Immunisation is the programme of injections that protects a child. The immunisation schedule.

It protects the child and everybody who cannot be vaccinated, which is the whole argument. Immunisation has done more for child survival than any other single measure.

Definitions of immunisation

1nounimmunisationThe programme of injections that protects a child.C1
“The immunisation record was in the red book and nowhere else.”

immunisation is a programme.

Also accepted in games: immunization

Where it comes from

From immune, from Latin immunis, exempt, plus the ending -isation.

French
immunisation
English, today
immunisation

From French immunisation. Equivalent to immunise + -ation or immune + -isation.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practised in Babies & Growing Up

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immunisation in the wild

Immunization, or immunisation, is the process by which an individual's immune system becomes fortified against an infectious agent (known as the immunogen).
Immunization
The scheme this seeks to drive towards 90% full immunisation coverage of India and sustain the same by year 2022.
Mission Indradhanush
The mission follow planning and administration like PPI (Pulse Polio immunisation).
Mission Indradhanush
The immunisation programme was implemented in phases from 24 February 2021 to February 2022, starting with Phase 1, which targeted healthcare workers and frontliners.
COVID-19 vaccination in Malaysia
The National Centre for Immunisation Research and Surveillance of Vaccine Preventable Diseases (NCIRS) is an Australian research organisation focusing on vaccine-preventable diseases and immunisation.
National Centre for Immunisation Research and Surveillance

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