What's the technical difference between...?

Question

innoculation and vaccination?

Answer 1

Vaccination is the administration of antigenic material to produce immunity to a disease. This will prevent or ameliorate the effects of infection by a pathogen. The material administrated can either be live, but weakened forms of pathogens such as bacteria or viruses, killed or inactivated forms of these pathogens, or purified material such as proteins. Smallpox was the first disease people tried to prevent by purposely inoculating (small pox virus rendered innocuous) themselves or with other less virulous infection like cow pox.
The word "Inoculation" refers to the placement of something to where it will grow or reproduce, and is most commonly used in respect of the introduction of a serum, vaccine, or antigenic substance into the body of a human or animal, especially to produce or boost immunity to a specific disease ie administering an innocuous microbial protein to elicit production of strong antibodies.
Vaccination thus involves administering pathogens to body to stimulate production of antibodies

Both are used synonymously now

Answer 2

Innoculation of Vaccines---in answer to your question there is no difference.
Innoculation is the way a vaccine is put into the system. Vaccination is just a way of stating the same.

Answer 3

The derivation of words is sometimes fascinating. I would have bet my bottom dollar that innoculation came from in + nocere, to render harmless. However, there is only one n in inoculation, and it derives from in + oculus (eye or bud) meaning to introduce a small amount of disease or antigenic material. In other words, you can be inoculated with a disease or against a disease.

Vaccination derives from "vacca" or cow, since cowpox was found to transmit immunity against its close cousin, smallpox. By extension then, vaccination is the act of inoculation with a vaccine to protect against disease.

Answer 4

none really. though the explanation of vaccination in the dictionary is " Inoculation with a vaccine in order to protect against a particular disease. " or
"A scar left on the skin by vaccinating."