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Keywords: weaken, vaccine, virulent, pathogen, mumps

Made thin or slender.

ftp.uga.edu

Made thin or less viscid; rarefied.

ftp.uga.edu

Weakened or decreased. For example, an attenuated virus can no longer produce disease but might be used to produce a vaccine.

thebody.com

Weakened. Attenuated viruses are often used as vaccines because they can no longer produce disease but may still stimulate a strong immune response. Examples include vaccines against polio (Sabin oral vaccine), measles, mumps, and rubella.

iavi.org.in

Made thin and weak

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Weakened; with reference to vaccines, made from pathogenic organisms that have been treated so as to render them avirulent.

ebe-efpia.org

thin and slender

eeb.uconn.edu

Weakened. An attenuated virus is one which has been changed such that it will no longer cause disease. An attenuated virus would be used in a modified live vaccine.

esvh.com

Weakened, diluted, thinned, reduced, weakened, diminished. See the entire definition of Attenuated

medicinenet.com

Weakened; with reference to vaccines, made from pathogenic orgainsms that have been treated so that they are unable to cause disease.

luizmeira.com

adj. weakened, made less virulent. An attenuated virus is a virus that is still alive but incapable of causing harm.

aids.hallym.ac.kr

Weakened or treated in such a way as to decrease the ability of a microorganism (such as parasite or virus) to cause infection or disease.

malariavaccine.org

Weakened or thinned. Attenuated strains of disease-causing bacteria and viruses are often used as vaccines. The weakened strains are used as vaccines because they stimulate a protective immune response while causing no disease or only mild disease in the person receiving the vaccine.

seniormag.com

to lessen the amount, force or value of : to weaken.

if.uidaho.edu

weakened. Attenuated viruses are often used as vaccines because they can no longer produce disease but still stimulate a strong immune response, like that to the natural virus. Examples of attenuated virus vaccines include oral polio, measles, mumps, and rubella vaccines.

thebody.com

weakened; less pathogenic/disease-causing

edis.ifas.ufl.edu

made weaker, such as in the weakening of the degree of virulence of a disease organism (for use) in vaccine production. page top

healthcarea2z.org

weakened. Pathogens (organisms such as viruses that produce disease) are attenuated to make them safe for use in a vaccine

thechildrensclinic.ie

weakened; with reference to microbiology or virology, to decrease the effectiveness, or virulence, of a pathogen. When a vaccine is attenuated, it means that it contains a weakened virus. This procedure is commonly used to induce active immunity in the body without causing illness. [Source: Biotechnology Industry Organization, www.bio.org

biojudiciary.org

To be weakened. An attenuated vaccine is one that has been weakened by chemicals, or other processes so that it will produce an adequate immune response without causing the serious effects of an infection.

hhs.gov

Weakened. Pathogens (organisms that produce disease, e.g. a virus) are attenuated to make them safe when used in a vaccine.

immunisation.nhs.uk

Weakened; no longer infectious.

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Keywords: tapering, pyrrohgaster, cynops, caudate, breeding

Tapering to a fine point or thread. During the breeding season, males of the caudate species Cynops pyrrohgaster develop attenuated tails.

livingunderworld.org

gradually tapering.

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