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A poison. 2. Any morbific agent which, when brought into contact with animal ti ue, di eminates itself so. as to affect the vitality of the parts on which it acts and in many cases that of the entire organism, anticlioleraic v. A preventive injection employed against Asiatic cholera, made from dead cholera spirilla, anti dysenteric v. A preventive injection employed against dysentery, made from dead dysentery bacilli, antiplague v. A preventive injection, employed against bubonic plague, made from dead cultures of the bacillus of bubonic plague, anti rabic v. An injection made from the dried and attenuated spinal cords of rabbits which have been inoculated with rabic virus; used to prevent the development of rabies, antityphoid v. An injection made from dead typhoid bacilli; used as a preventive against typhoid fever, attenuated v. A v. that has become weakened. Haffkine's v. Anti bubonic v. A v. used against the bubonic plague, specific v. The characteristic poison of a particular disease. vaccine v. See vaccine. [Lat., virus, poison.]