F. inoculation.] Inoculation. Inoculation is the placement of something that 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.
AVAPS stands for Average Volume Assured Pressure Support (ventilation) Suggest new definition. This definition appears somewhat frequently and is found in the following Acronym Finder categories: Science, medicine, engineering, etc.
Ventilator-associated pneumonia. Ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) is a type of lung infection that occurs in people who are on breathing machines in hospitals. As such, VAP typically affects critically ill persons that are in an intensive care unit (ICU). VAP is a major source of increased illness and death.