Salk vaccine

noun
1.
a vaccine that contains three types of inactivated poliomyelitis viruses and induces immunity against the disease.
Origin
1950-55; named after J. E. Salk
Salk vaccine in Medicine

Salk vaccine n.
A vaccine containing inactivated polioviruses, used to immunize against poliomyelitis.

Salk vaccine in Culture
Salk vaccine [(sawlk, sawk)]

The first vaccine developed for immunization against poliomyelitis. It is named for Jonas Salk, the twentieth-century American scientist who developed it.