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Noun: Edward Jenner
  1. English physician who pioneered vaccination; Jenner inoculated people with small amounts of cowpox to prevent them from getting smallpox (1749-1823)
    - Jenner

Type of: doc [informal], doctor, Dr., MD, medico [informal], physician

Encyclopedia: Edward Jenner