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单词 pfeiffer
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Pfeiffern.

Brit. /ˈ(p)fʌɪfə/, U.S. /ˈ(p)faɪfər/
Origin: From a proper name. Etymon: proper name Pfeiffer.
Etymology: < the name of Richard Pfeiffer (1858–1945), German bacteriologist.With Pfeiffer's phenomenon (see sense 1) compare French phenomène de Pfeiffer :1895 E. Metchnikoff in Ann. de L'Inst. Pasteur 9 438 La découverte de la destruction extracellulaire des microbes dans le liquid péritonéal, ou de ce qu'on peut appeler le ‘phenomène de Pfeiffer’, suggère toute une série de questions touchant le problème général de l'immunité. With Pfeiffer's bacillus (see sense 2) compare French bacille de Pfeiffer (1897 or earlier), German Pfeiffer'scher Bacillus (1908 or earlier; now usually Bacillus Pfeiffer).
Bacteriology.
1. attributive and in the genitive. Designating the lysis of cholera bacteria in the presence of antiserum and peritoneal fluid, later recognized as an example of specific lysis by antibody and complement. Now historical.Described by Pfeiffer in Zeitschr. f. Hygiene u. Infektionskrankh. 14 (1893) 59.
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plasmolysed1883
plasmolysing1883
plasmolytic1885
cytolytic1896
plasmolysable1896
Pfeiffer1897
lipolytic1898
autolytic1900
lytic1902
trypanolytic1907
heterolytic1909
lysed1922
lysing1924
oncolytic1928
phosphorolytic1937
lysogenized1953
1897 R. Muir & J. Ritchie Man. Bacteriol. xvii. 393 A striking change is observed microscopically in the vibrios when injected along with the protective serum into the peritoneal cavity of another guinea-pig—Pfeiffer's reaction.
1900 Proc. Royal Soc. 1899–1900 66 443 The Pfeiffer phenomenon of bacteriolysis.
1929 W. W. C. Topley & G. S. Wilson Princ. Bacteriol. & Immunity II. lxi. 905 Pfeiffer's phenomenon is of great value in the identification of the cholera vibrio.
1970 Science 3 Apr. 141/2 (heading) A new application of the Pfeiffer phenomenon.
1988 Q. N. Myrvik & R. S. Weiser Fund. Med. Bacteriol. & Mycol. (ed. 2) xxii. 325 Pfeiffer discovered the phenomenon of antibody-plus-complement lysis of Gram-negative bacteria (Pfeiffer phenomenon) when he described vibriocidal Abs in 1894.
2. Pfeiffer's bacillus n. (also Pfeiffer bacillus, †Pfeiffer's influenza bacillus) the bacterium Haemophilus influenzae, formerly thought to be the causal agent of influenza. Now chiefly historical.Described by Pfeiffer in Deutsch. med. Wochenschr. (1892) 14 Jan. 28.
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tubercle bacillus1882
Koch's bacillus1885
comma (bacillus)1886
spider-cell1888
Klebs–Löffler1895
Hofmann's bacillus1897
Koch–Weeks bacillus1898
Pfeiffer's bacillus1900
Shiga1900
Hansen('s) bacillus1903
streptobacilli1903
Johne's bacillus1907
wisp bacillus1915
klebsiella1928
Shigella1937
listerella1940
coliform1951
thiobacillus1951
1900 H. J. Curtis Essent. Pract. Bacteriol. Index 287/1 Pfeiffer's influenza bacillus.
1910 P. H. Hiss & H. Zinsser Text-bk. Bacteriol. xxxvii. 528 The bacillus of influenza (Pfeiffer bacillus) is an extremely small organism, about 0·5 micron long.
1936 Lancet 12 Dec. 1383/1 The illness produced by introducing virulent cultures of Pfeiffer's bacillus into a healthy person is not genuine epidemic influenza.
1949 H. W. C. Vines Green's Man. Pathol. (ed. 17) xxxix. 1108 Other bacteria which may occasionally be met with are the members of the typhoid group, Pfeiffer's bacillus, anthrax, and Friedländer's pneumo-bacillus.
1953 J. Ramsbottom Mushrooms & Toadstools xxiii. 278 The insensitive Pfeiffer's bacillus..in the respiratory tract is usually associated with organisms highly sensitive to penicillin.
1991 A. Nikiforuk Fourth Horseman ix. 150 The pigs..had loads of Pfeiffer's bacilli, a normally harmless freeloader that can cause pneumonia.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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