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inoculum

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Inoculum (noun) means the substance, or a dose of it, used to inoculate someone or something.

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The substance, or a dose of it, used to inoculate someone or something.

"Observers noted that Chinese variolators in Vietnam exhibited one or two slight variations in their practice, however, one constant factor is that they all introduced inoculum into the nasal passages." — C. Michele Thompson, Vietnamese Traditional Medicine: A Social History (2015)

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