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

1 sense of variolation

Sense 1
variolation, variolization -- (the obsolete process of inoculating a susceptible person with material taken from a vesicle of a person who has smallpox)
       => 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")