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

Sabin vaccine n.
An oral vaccine that contains live attenuated polioviruses and is used to confer immunity against poliomyelitis.
Sabin vaccine [(say-bin)]

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

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