Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

phylacogen

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: phy-laco-gen
IPA

21

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

3

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any of several bacterial derivatives developed by Dr. A. F. Schafer in 1910 to combat bacterial infections.

Countable; Uncountable

Example Sentences

"As patient was steadily growing worse and becoming more emaciated and suffering from the increased pain, rheumatism phylacogen treatment was suspended, and a tuberculin test was made, which was markedly positive."
"Administer phylacogen to combat the effects of the toxemia from the infecting organisms."
"When phylacogens were first introduced the best means of regulating the dosage to the individual patient had not been determined, and constitutional reactions were more frequent and more pronounced than they are at the present time."

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Φύλαξ (Phúlax, “guard”) + γενναν (gennan, “to produce”).

Origin

Source language: Ancient Greek

Word Breakdown

Root: Φύλαξ

Usage

Inflected Forms

phylacogens (plural)

Questions

What does phylacogen mean?: Any of several bacterial derivatives developed by Dr. A. F. Schafer in 1910 to combat bacterial infections.
Where does phylacogen come from?: It is traced to Ancient Greek.

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