Meanings
plural sozines · alternative sozin
- obsoleteAn antiseptic substance; any protein normally contained in the body of an animal and forming a natural protection against germs.
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These albuminous substances, whether found as normal products or created artificially in the blood, are distinguished as antitoxins, protective proteïds, vaccines, or alexines; physiologically they have been divided into sozines, those found in animals naturally immune, and phylaxines, those found in animals which by subcutaneous injections have artificially been made immune.
1895, Frantz Peckel Möller, Cod-liver Oil and Chemistry, page 442
Origin
- Ancient Greekσῴζειν“to save”
- Englishsozine
Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek σῴζειν (sōízein, “to save”).
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