horror autotoxicus

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The now-discredited principle that the body will not harm itself by its own immune reactions. historical,uncountable
    — Ehrlich's dictum of horror autotoxicus makes no claim that autoantibodies may not be formed; it only suggests that they are somehow prevented from acting.

词源

Latinate neologism coined c. 1900 by Paul Ehrlich in German, from Latin horror, auto- (“self”), toxicus (“toxic”). Compare horror vacui.
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