salk vaccine

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   a poliovirus vaccine consisting of inactivated polio virus that is injected subcutaneously to provide immunity to poliomyelitis

   SynonymsIPV

   Broaderpoliovirus vaccine

Questions about salk vaccine

What does salk vaccine mean?

salk vaccine means "a poliovirus vaccine consisting of inactivated polio virus that is injected subcutaneously to provide immunity to poliomyelitis".

What is another word for salk vaccine?

Close synonyms include IPV. 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 salk vaccine a common word?

salk 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.