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Definition of the Salk vaccine noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

the Salk vaccine

noun
 
/ðə ˈsɔːlk væksiːn/
 
/ðə ˈsɔːlk væksiːn/
[singular]
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  1. a medicine used to prevent polio (= a serious disease affecting the nervous system), developed in 1954 by the US scientist Jonas Salk (1914-95)
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