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View synonyms for Sabin vaccine

Sabin vaccine

noun

  1. an orally administered vaccine of live viruses for immunization against poliomyelitis.


Sabin vaccine

/ ˈseɪbɪn /

noun

  1. a vaccine taken orally to immunize against poliomyelitis, developed by Albert Bruce Sabin (1906–93) in 1955
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Sabin vaccine

  1. An oral vaccine developed by the twentieth-century American scientist and physician Albert B. Sabin that induces immunity to poliomyelitis .


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Origin of Sabin vaccine1

Named after A. B. Sabin

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