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View synonyms for Salk vaccine

Salk vaccine

noun

  1. a vaccine that contains three types of inactivated poliomyelitis viruses and induces immunity against the disease.


Salk vaccine

  1. 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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Word History and Origins

Origin of Salk vaccine1

First recorded in 1950–55; named after J. E. Salk

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