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BCG vaccine

7 ENTRIES FOUND:
  1. BCG vaccine (noun)
  2. Donovan body (noun)
  3. Donovania (noun)
  4. duct of Bartholin (noun)
  5. neo-Darwinian (adjective)
  6. Varolian (adjective)
  7. Williams syndrome (noun)

BCG vaccine

noun \ˌbē-(ˌ)sē-ˈjē-\

Definition of BCG VACCINE

: a vaccine prepared from a living attenuated strain of tubercle bacilli and used to vaccinate human beings against tuberculosis

Biographical Note for BCG VACCINE

A. L. C. Calmette and C. Guérin —see bacillus calmette-guérin

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