- Salk vaccine
- noun Etymology: Jonas Salk Date: 1954 a vaccine consisting of poliomyelitis virus inactivated with formaldehyde
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Salk vaccine — Vaccine against poliomyelitis named for Dr. Jonas Salk who developed and introduced it in 1955. It was the first type of polio vaccine to become available. It was made by cultivating three strains of the virus separately in monkey tissue. The… … Medical dictionary
Salk vaccine — Salk′ vaccine n. imu a vaccine that contains three types of inactivated poliomyelitis viruses and induces immunity against the disease • Etymology: 1950–55; after J. E. Salk who developed it … From formal English to slang
Salk vaccine — vaccine against the viruses which cause Polio … English contemporary dictionary
Salk Vaccine — For many years the scourge of human existence was a disease called poliomyelitis, or polio. It is caused by a virus that destroys the nervous tissue in the spinal cord, resulting in paralysis. Quite often children seemed to develop this virus… … Dictionary of eponyms
Salk vaccine — a vaccine that contains three types of inactivated poliomyelitis viruses and induces immunity against the disease. [1950 55; named after J. E. SALK] * * * … Universalium
Salk vaccine — a vaccine against poliomyelitis, formed by treating the virus with formalin, which prevents it from causing disease but does not impair its ability to stimulate antibody production. It is administered by injection. [E. Salk (1914–95), US… … The new mediacal dictionary
Salk vaccine — n. a vaccine developed against polio. Etymology: J. E. Salk, Amer. scientist b. 1914 … Useful english dictionary
(the) Salk vaccine — the Salk vaccine [the Salk vaccine] noun [sing] a medicine used to prevent ↑polio (= a serious disease affecting the nervous system), developed in 1954 … Useful english dictionary
SALK, JONAS — (1914–1995), U.S. virologist. Salk was born in New York City, graduating in medicine from New York University Medical School (1939). Pursuing his commitment as a student to killed antiviral vaccination, he worked on influenza virus vaccines at… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
Vaccine, Salk — Vaccine against poliomyelitis named for Dr. Jonas Salk who developed and introduced it in 1955. It was the first type of polio vaccine to become available. It was made by cultivating three strains of the virus separately in monkey tissue. The… … Medical dictionary
