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   The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition.  2000.
 
Bacillus Calmette-Guérin vaccine
 
SYLLABICATION:Ba·cil·lus Cal·mette-Gué·rin vaccine
PRONUNCIATION:  b-sls kl-mtg-rn
NOUN: The BCG vaccine.
ETYMOLOGY:After Albert L.C. Calmette (1863–1933) and Camille Guérin (1872–1961), French bacteriologists.
 
 
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