Definition of "inoculative" []

• Relating to inoculation. (adjective)

Wiktionary.org : Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License

• "First, while I contend that nearly all horror can be read as inoculative to some degree, most authors do not intend it outright, and I have already demonstrated how a text that is aware of it inoculative potentiality functions in the case"
• "Moreover, at the present time, when there is so much talk about the inoculative treatment of pulmonary consumption by the cultivated virus of its special microbe, it is highly interesting to know that the helenin of Elecampane is said to be peculiarly destructive to the bacillus of tubercular disease."
• "T. lusitanicus, the modulation of the SCP and THA levels during the winter may be an important mechanism in preventing the formation of inoculative freezing (by contact with ice) during periods of frosts."