[1900–05; oxy-2 + -philic]This word is first recorded in the period 1900–05. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: Young Turk, burnout, clone, geopolitics, hormoneoxy- is a combining form representing oxygen in compound words, sometimes as an equivalent of hydroxy-. Other words that use the affix oxy- include: alkoxy, epoxy, oxymorphone, oxysalt, oxytetracycline; -philic is a combining form occurring in adjectives that correspond to nouns ending in -phile. Other words that use the affix -philic include: cryophilic, nucleophilic, oleophilic, photophilic, thermophilic
Examples of 'oxyphilic' in a sentence
oxyphilic
In 63 patients an oxyphilic variant was registered.
Carmela De Crea, Marco Raffaelli, Luca Sessa, Simona Ronti, Guido Fadda, Chiara Bellantone,Celestino Pio Lombardi 2014, 'Actual Incidence and Clinical Behaviour of Follicular Thyroid Carcinoma: An InstitutionalExperience', The Scientific World Journalhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/952095. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Negative staining was found in oxyphilic cell adenoma (0/4), nodular goiter (0/13) and undifferentiated carcinoma.
M. Mokhtari, M. Sadeghi, A. Talebi 2005, 'MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY HBME-1 USEFULNESS IN DIFFERENTIATION OF BENIGN NEOPLASM AND DIFFERENTIATEDTHYROID CARCINOMA', Acta Medica Iranicahttp://journals.tums.ac.ir/PdfMed.aspx?pdf_med=/upload_files/pdf/740.pdf&manuscript_id=740. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)