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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The protective or prophylactic inoculation of the attenuated virus of certain diseases, especially of hydrophobia, as devised by the French scientist Louis Pasteur (born 1822).
- noun Same as
Pasteurization .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A method of treatment, devised by Pasteur, for preventing certain diseases, as hydrophobia, by successive inoculations with an attenuated virus of gradually increasing strength.
- noun Pasteurization.
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