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单词 pacifarin
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pacifarinn.

Brit. /pəˈsɪf(ə)rɪn/, U.S. /pəˈsɪf(ə)rən/
Origin: A borrowing from Latin, combined with an English element. Etymons: Latin pācificāre , -in suffix1.
Etymology: < pācif- (in classical Latin pācificāre pacify v.) + -ar- (perhaps irregularly representing the infinitive stem of classical Latin pācificāre, or after other chemical names such as warfarin n.) + -in suffix1.
Biology. Now rare.
A biological product that protects an organism from the harmful effects of an infection without killing the pathogen.
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pacifarin1963
1963 H. A. Schneider in Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc. 107 445/2 As a new and third category of ecological ectocrines, which already embraces vitamins and antibiotics, we add as the first example of its class the substance I have described above, and name the class ‘pacifarins’ from the Latin verb ‘pacificare’, to make peace, to pacify... The salmonellosis pacifarin, is, we believe, addressed only to the typhoid diseases, and for other diseases there are, we postulate, other pacifarins waiting to be identified.
1967 Daily Tel. 10 May 14/6 The basis of the discovery is that a microscopic amount of pacifarin extracted from wheat and dried egg-white will protect mice against infection by salmonella.
1975 Infection & Immunity 11 69/2 Certain bacterial products other than enterobactin are also now known to possess pacifarin activity.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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