单词 | phylactic |
释义 | phylactic1/fɪˈlaktɪk/rare noun A medicinal substance or remedy that protects from disease, toxicity, or infection. OriginEarly 18th century. From Hellenistic Greek ϕυλακτικόν medicine serving to preserve health, use as noun of neuter of ancient Greek ϕυλακτικός serving to guard or preserve. phylactic2/fɪˈlaktɪk/Medicine rare adjective Serving to protect, especially immunologically, against infection, disease, etc. OriginEarly 20th century. From ancient Greek ϕυλακτικός serving to guard or preserve from ϕυλακ-, stem of ϕυλάσσειν to guard + -τικός, suffix forming adjectives from verbs. Compare French phylactique. |
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