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phylacogens

phylacogens is the plural of phylacogen.

Meaning of phylacogen

Noun

phylacogen (countable and uncountable, plural phylacogens)

  1. Any of several bacterial derivatives developed by Dr. A. F. Schafer in 1910 to combat bacterial infections.
    • 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.1912, College of Physicians of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, Symposium on the use of phylacogens (modified bacterial derivatives) (page 62)

Questions about phylacogens

What is phylacogens the plural of?
Phylacogens is the plural of phylacogen.

Words near phylacogens in the dictionary

  1. phygital
  2. phygocyte
  3. phykoerythrin
  4. phyla
  5. phylacogen
  6. phylacogens
  7. phylacter
  8. phylactered
  9. phylacteric
  10. phylacterical
  11. phylacteried

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