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Edward Jenner

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Noun

1. edward jenner, jenner

English physician who pioneered vaccination; Jenner inoculated people with small amounts of cowpox to prevent them from getting smallpox (1749-1823)

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.


Edward Jenner

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British physician who developed a vaccine for smallpox that involved inoculating a person with the substance from cowpox lesions.

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