pneumococcal vaccine

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   vaccine (trade name Pneumovax) effective against the 23 most common strains of pneumococcus

   SynonymsPneumovax

   Broadervaccine

   trade name

Questions about pneumococcal vaccine

What does pneumococcal vaccine mean?

pneumococcal vaccine means "vaccine (trade name Pneumovax) effective against the 23 most common strains of pneumococcus".

What is another word for pneumococcal vaccine?

Close synonyms include Pneumovax. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is pneumococcal vaccine a common word?

pneumococcal vaccine is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.