Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun ring_vaccination

1 sense of ring vaccination

Sense 1
ring vaccination -- (administering vaccine only to people in close contact with an isolated infected patient; prevents the spread of a highly infectious disease by surrounding the patient with a ring of immunization)
       => inoculating, vaccinating -- (the act of protecting against disease by introducing a vaccine into the body to induce immunity; "doctors examined the recruits but nurses did the inoculating")