transcription, транскрипция: [ ˌbē-(ˌ)sē-ˈjē- ]
noun
Etymology: B acillus C almette- G uérin (an attenuated strain of tubercle bacilli), from Albert Calmette died 1933 and Camille Guérin died 1961 French bacteriologists
Date: 1927
: a vaccine prepared from a living attenuated strain of tubercle bacilli and used to vaccinate human beings against tuberculosis — called also BCG