n.
A vaccine consisting of inactivated polioviruses, used to immunize against poliomyelitis.
[After Jonas Edward SALK.]
Salk vaccine
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A vaccine consisting of inactivated polioviruses, used to immunize against poliomyelitis.
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Fifty years ago today the Salk vaccine was released for general use in the U.S. Developed by Dr. Jonas Salk, the vaccine was used to immunize against polio. Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who died of a cerebral hemorrhage on this date in 1945, became a victim of polio at the age of 39. Though he was partially paralyzed from the waist down, FDR did regain some use of his legs. When he died, he had just begun a record fourth term as US president.
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The first vaccine developed for immunization against poliomyelitis. It is named for Jonas Salk, the twentieth-century American scientist who developed it.
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A vaccine containing inactivated polioviruses, used to immunize against poliomyelitis.
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Meaning #1:
a poliovirus vaccine consisting of inactivated polio virus that is injected subcutaneously to provide immunity to poliomyelitis
Synonym: IPV
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