vaccinifer

[Eng. vaccine, and Lat. fero = to bear.] One from whose body lymph is taken for the purpose of vaccination. "The child of such parents should be set aside and not used as a vaccinifer ."- Bryant : Manual of Surgery (1879), i. 95. văc'-çin-ist, s . [Eng. vaccin(e); -ist.] A vac cinator. IMG:content-0362.png:[blocks in formation] stems, evergreen obovate leaves dotted be- Vaccinium Myrtillus and Fruit. neath, terminal drooping racemes of pale flesh-colored flowers, open at the mouth and with spreading segments. It is found on heaths and mountains or in woods, and is diffused here and there in the north of Europe, Siberia, and North America. V. leschenaultii , growing on the mountains of Southern India and Ceylon from 4,000 to 8,000 feet high, bears an edible fruit. 2. Palæobot.: A species occurs in the Miocene and one in the Pleistocene. ( Ethe ridge.) Pathol.: Of or belonging to inoculation partly vaccinic, partly syphilitic. [VACCINATION.] va-chěl-li-a, subst. [Named after Rev. G. H. Vachell, residing in China.] Bot.: An old genus of Acaciese, now reduced to a sub-genus of Acacia, or altogether merged into that genus. Vachellia farnesiana , now Acacia farnesi ana , is a large shrub or small tree, with bipinnate leaves having four to eight pinne, each with ten to Pathol .: A kind of lichen sometimes appearing in twenty pairs of narrow, blunt leaflets. The flowers, connection with Vaccinal Fever (q. v.). vaccine-lymph, vaccine-matter, s. Med.: A pure pellucid liquid taken directly or indirectly from the udder of a cow suffering from cow-pox. [VACCINATION.] vaccine-roseola, s. Pathol .: A variety of roseola occasionally arising in connection with vaccine fever (q. v.). văc'-çin'-1-ạ, văc-çi-ną, s. [Mod. Lat., from vacca a cow.] Pathol .: Cowpox (q. v.).