English Explanatory Dictionary

horror autotoxicus

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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

Word forms

horror autotoxicus

Etymology

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

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