Sabin vaccine

n.
An oral poliomyelitis vaccine consisting of live attenuated polio viruses.

[After Albert Bruce SABIN.]

(say-bin)

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

n.

An oral vaccine that contains live attenuated polioviruses and is used to confer immunity against poliomyelitis.

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The noun has one meaning:

Meaning #1: an oral poliovirus vaccine (containing live but weakened poliovirus) that is given to provide immunity to poliomyelitis
  Synonyms: oral poliovirus vaccine, OPV, trivalent live oral poliomyelitis vaccine, TOPV

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