Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Susceptible to a disease transmitted by inoculation.
- adjective Capable of being used in an inoculation.
- adjective Transmissible by inoculation.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Capable of being inoculated, as a person, or of being communicated by inoculation, as a disease.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Capable of being inoculated; capable of communicating disease, or of being communicated, by inoculation.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Capable of being
inoculated . - adjective Capable of communicating
disease , or of being communicated, byinoculation .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Further, the disease produced by inoculation of the filtrate was itself inoculable and could be transmitted from animal to animal.
Disease and Its Causes William Thomas Councilman
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Syphilis, therefore, is a markedly contagious and inoculable disease.
Venereal Diseases in New Zealand (1922) Report of the Special Committee of the Board of Health appointed by the Hon. Minister of Health New Zealand. Committee of the Board of Health
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It was also found that when the virus was filtered several times it ceased to be inoculable, showing that each time the fluid was passed through the filter some of the minute organisms contained in it were held back.
Disease and Its Causes William Thomas Councilman
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It is contagious, the contents of the lesions being inoculable and auto-inoculable.
Essentials of Diseases of the Skin Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine Henry Weightman Stelwagon 1886
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A specific inoculable affection endemic in some valleys of the Western
Essentials of Diseases of the Skin Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine Henry Weightman Stelwagon 1886
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So, in like manner, the virus of tuberculosis, either extruding from a granular os or from its neighborhood, gradually moves down on the unsuspecting, uncircumcised, and easily inoculable-surfaced glans penis, to infect the system with a tubercular poison that has no such exceptions as those above noted, as at times are the followers of syphilis.
History of Circumcision from the Earliest Times to the Present Moral and Physical Reasons for its Performance Peter Charles Remondino 1886
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Treatment consists in the destruction of the auto-inoculable properties of the contents of the lesions; this is effected by removing the crusts by means of warm water-and-soap washings, and subsequently rubbing in an ointment of ammoniated mercury, ten to twenty grains to the ounce.
Essentials of Diseases of the Skin Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine Henry Weightman Stelwagon 1886
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The disease is inoculable and thought to be due to a bacillus.
Essentials of Diseases of the Skin Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine Henry Weightman Stelwagon 1886
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Like the discharge of acute inflammation, it contains many forms of bacteria, by some of which it is manifestly inoculable on the penis of the stallion, producing ulcers and a specific, gonorrheal discharge.
Special Report on Diseases of the Horse Charles B. Michener 1877
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This reply made Pierre grave, for he was quite willing to admit that an opportunist code of morals, like that of the Jesuits, was inoculable and now predominated throughout the Church.
The Three Cities Trilogy: Rome, Complete ��mile Zola 1871
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