vaccination
administration of a vaccine to protect against disease
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Summary
vaccination is a medical treatment[1]. vaccination ranks in the top 5% of medical treatment entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (3,989 views/month).[2]
Key Facts
- Subclass of: preventive medicine[3], active immunotherapy[4]
- Commons category: Vaccinations[5]
- Opposite of: antibody injection[6]
- Topic's main category: Category:Vaccination[7]
- OpenStreetMap tag: healthcare:speciality=vaccination[8]
- Described by source: Otto's encyclopedia[9], Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary[10], Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[11], Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[12], Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[13], The Nuttall Encyclopædia[14], Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[15], The New Student's Reference Work[16]
- Has effect: active immunity[17]
- ICD-9-CM: 99.3[18], 99.5[19]
- Uses: vaccine[20], injection[21]
- Hashtag: vaccinated[22]
- On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[23]
Why It Matters
vaccination has Wikipedia articles in 27 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[24] vaccination is known by 73 alternative names across languages and contexts.[25]