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View synonyms for Salk vaccine
Salk vaccine
noun
- a vaccine that contains three types of inactivated poliomyelitis viruses and induces immunity against the disease.
Salk vaccine
- The first vaccine developed for immunization against poliomyelitis . It is named for Jonas Salk, the twentieth-century American scientist who developed it.
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Origin of Salk vaccine1
First recorded in 1950–55; named after J. E. Salk
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