Meanings
- not comparableIndo-Europeanhuman sciencesHaving the accent on the root in the strong cases and on the ending in the weak cases.
Synonyms: rhizokinetic, acrokinetic
- not comparablemedicineGiving rise to an acquired immunity.
Natural and acquired immunity against general acrodynamic bacteria represents the same condition of the system.
1891, Leartus Connor, The American Lancet - Volume 15, page 3571 more example
If the bacillus, discovered in 1884 by Lustgarten,” in Weigert's laboratory, is really the specific virus of syphilis, this bacillus undoubtedly belongs to the general acrodynamic bacteria, though giving rise to a remarkably slow dynamic evolution of the organisms, this latter remaining unusually long in the different states that correspond to the different degrees of the dynamic evolution of syphilis.
1891, New York Medical Journal - Volume 54, page 67
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveHaving the accent on the root in the strong cases and on the ending in the weak cases.
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂eḱ-
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂eḱrós
- Proto-Hellenic[Term?]
- Ancient Greekᾰ̓́κρος (ắkros)
- Englishacro-
- Proto-Indo-European*dewh₂-
- Proto-Hellenic*dunamai
- Ancient Greekδῠ́νᾰμαι (dŭ́nămai)
- Ancient Greekδύναμις (dúnamis)
- Ancient Greekδυναμικός (dunamikós)
- Frenchdynamique
- Englishdynamic
- Englishacrodynamic
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