English-Swedish translations for inoculate

• inokulera
  Vaccinationens effektivitet kan äventyras på många sätt, t.ex. om ett djur inokuleras mot en sjukdom som det redan har.The effectiveness of the vaccination can be compromised by many things, including its being administered to an animal that already has the disease it is being inoculated against.
• inympa
• vaccinera
  Fördelen med förslaget är att det besvarar frågan om huruvida man bör vaccinera eller inte.The good thing about the proposal is that it answers the question ‘to inoculate or not to inoculate?’
  Har du vaccinerad dig mot influensan?
• ympa

Definition of inoculate

• To introduce an antigenic substance or vaccine into ''something' or ''someone'', such as to produce immunity to a specific disease.
• To safeguard or protect something as if by inoculation
• To add one substance to another; to spike
• To graft by inserting buds.
• To introduce into the mind ; to imbue; to implant.

Examples

• The culture medium was inoculated with selenium to investigate the rate of uptake
• to inoculate the bud of one tree or plant into another
• to inoculate a tree
• to inoculate someone with treason or infidelity

Related words

• inoculation
• inoculatrix
• battle inoculation