horror autotoxicus

短语

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    The now-discredited principle that the body will not harm itself by its own immune reactions.

    历史 不可数 医学

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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