[with obj.]treat (a person or animal) with a vaccine to produce immunity against a disease 给(人,动物)接种疫苗。 比较vaccinate he inoculated his tenants against smallpox. 他给他的房客们接种天花疫苗。 ■introduce (an infective agent) into an organism (向生物体)接种(感染剂) it can be inoculated into laboratory animals. 它可被接种入实验动物。 ■introduce (cells or organisms) into a culture medium 把(细胞,有机体)接种入培养基
late Middle English (in the sense 'graft a bud or shoot into a plant of a different type'): from Latin inoculat- 'engrafted', from the verb inoculare, from in- 'into' + oculus 'eye, bud'. The sense 'vaccinate' dates from the early 18th cent