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biologic en · ADJ

Pronunciation

  • /bʌɪəˈlɒdʒɪk/ (UK)
  • (US) audio

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *gʷeyh₃-der. Ancient Greek βίος (bíos) Proto-Indo-European *leǵ- Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *lóǵos Proto-Hellenic *lógos Ancient Greek λόγος (lógos) Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂ Proto-Hellenic *-íā Ancient Greek -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā) Ancient Greek -λογῐ́ᾱ (-logĭ́ā)bor. Latin -logia New Latin biologialbor. English biology Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icuslbor. Old French -iquebor. Middle English -ik English -ic English biologic From biology + -ic.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Biological; pertaining to biology or to a living organism.
    • A biologic therapy that delays the onset of type 1 diabetes received approval from the US Food and Drug Administration on Thursday. 2022 November 17, Jen Christensen and Brenda Goodman, “FDA approves first treatment to delay onset of type 1 diabetes”, in CNN:
    • Biologic femaleness is a sequence of circular returns, beginning and ending at the same point. 1990, Camille Paglia, Sexual Personae:

Deriveds

orthobiologic · photobiologic · psychobiologic · immunobiologic · radiobiologic · prebiologic · biologic time · microbiologic · abiologic · paleobiologic · nonbiologic · chemicobiologic · chronobiologic · palaeobiologic

Synonyms

biological

biologic en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • /bʌɪəˈlɒdʒɪk/ (UK)
  • (US) audio

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *gʷeyh₃-der. Ancient Greek βίος (bíos) Proto-Indo-European *leǵ- Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *lóǵos Proto-Hellenic *lógos Ancient Greek λόγος (lógos) Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂ Proto-Hellenic *-íā Ancient Greek -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā) Ancient Greek -λογῐ́ᾱ (-logĭ́ā)bor. Latin -logia New Latin biologialbor. English biology Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icuslbor. Old French -iquebor. Middle English -ik English -ic English biologic From biology + -ic.

Meanings

  1. An extremely complex drug, vaccine or antitoxin that is made from a living organism, or from products of a living organism.
    • It involved 136 biologics approved in the United States and 105 in the European Union between January 1995 and June 2007. A total of 41, or nearly 24 percent, got safety warnings issued through June 2008. 2008 October 21, The Associated Press, “1 in 4 new bio meds cause serious side effects”, in NBC News:

Forms

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Synonyms

biopharmaceutical

wikipedia: biologic