Glossary entry

German term or phrase:

Megablocl

English translation:

mega-jab/mega-shot

Added to glossary by Bettina Grieser Johns
Jun 7, 2013 14:53
11 yrs ago
German term

Megablocl

German to English Medical Medical (general) Dialyse
***Der Patient muss auch noch durchgeimpft werden.... es geht um Hepatitis B, FSME, Pneumovax etc. Der Patient ist an und fuer sich mit diesen Impfungen einverstanden, wir werden naechste Woche den Megablock machen.***

Still the same dialysis patient in Switzerland. Does 'Megablock' refer to the vaccination? Is it the same word in English? I'm completely baffled.

Thanks again for your help!
Proposed translations (English)
3 +1 mega-jab/mega-shot

Discussion

Bettina Grieser Johns (asker) Jun 7, 2013:
Thanks, Stephen, that's what I thought, but wanted to make sure as I'd never come across it.
Stephen Sadie Jun 7, 2013:
this means that they are going to do the "fullwhack" of vaccinations, hth

Proposed translations

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mega-jab/mega-shot

If *fullwhack* (albeit nice!) seems a bit extreme to you but you still want to adhere to the colloquial undertone...
Multiple vaccines, one inoculation.

If you choose to have your baby vaccinated with the combination diphtheria, tetanus, whooping cough (pertussis), polio and Haemophilus influenzae type 2 vaccine, a *mega-jab* collectively known as the DTap-IPV-Hib, your child may be at an increased risk of having a vaccine-induced seizure.
http://www.naturalnews.com/035072_Dtap_vaccine_seizures_babi...

The *mega-jab*:
A radical approach to immunisation is to inject raw DNA directly into patients. Tests are already under way to induce immunity to a range of infections. DNA vaccines could immunise people against a range of infections simultaneously with just one jab.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/23-ways-that-dna-c...

Wow, that's a *mega-jab*!! How big was the needle?? hehehe ... And polio here is the oral live vaccine, not the inactivated one. And of course the NHS is still very ...
http://forums.ivillage.co.uk/t5/General-Discussions/Six-in-o...

Could it be that child's genetic predisposition to react with all those vaccines put together in one *mega-shot*?
http://hotair.com/headlines/archives/2012/08/23/trump-inocul...

The MMR decision just came about because its a *mega shot*.
http://www.rachelshumor.com/2009_03_01_archive.html
Peer comment(s):

agree Cetacea
20 hrs
Danke, Cetacea & ein schönes WE!
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