英语词汇inoculate的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	inoculate
词源	inoculate. Inoculate derives from the Latin inoculare, “to graft by budding,” “implant.” The word was first recorded in this sense at the beginning of the 15th century and wasn’t used in the medical sense of inoculation, to plant a disease agent or antigen in a person to stimulate disease resistance, until 1722. See graft.
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