Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- abbreviation oral poliovirus vaccine
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- noun military, aviation, US
optionally piloted vehicle ;
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- noun an oral vaccine (containing live but weakened poliovirus) that is given to provide immunity to poliomyelitis
Etymologies
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Examples
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More cost effective – When resources are limited, OPV is more cost effective because it is given by mouth not needle.
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One way to make sure it's working is to do a CQ (aka OPV) encode, one with it on and another without it.
VideoHelp.com Forum 2009
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One way to make sure it's working is to do a CQ (aka OPV) encode, one with it on and another without it.
VideoHelp.com Forum 2009
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The U.S. used OPV exclusively between 1963 and 1996.
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Better protection – In places where there is still a significant threat of polio infection, the OPV vaccine provides better protection because the virus reproduces itself both in the gastrointestinal tract and central nervous system.
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OPV – The oral polio vaccine is made from live, weakened poliovirus.
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OPV may hold the record on unintentional deaths until somebody makes a math error a la Mars Climate Orbiter on moving an asteroid into Earth orbit .... oops.
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The other is a live polio vaccine (OPV), known as the Sabin vaccine, is given orally.
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The OPV vaccine, despite causing rare cases of paralysis, was used for many years in the U.S. and is still used in many other places around the world.
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We stopped vaccinating our son after we nearly lost him at his 6 month well-child check when he received 6 vaccines: Hib, HepB, DTP and OPV (they were still using the DTP and OPV in 1999), one right after another.
Would You Steal from this Woman? Anne-Marie 2008
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