biologic

adj
/bʌɪəˈlɒdʒɪk/UK

Etymology

From biology + -ic.

  1. borrowed from biologia
  2. formed as biologic — “biology + -ic

Definitions

  1. Biological

    Biological; pertaining to biology or to a living organism.

    • Biologic femaleness is a sequence of circular returns, beginning and ending at the same point.
    • A biologic therapy that delays the onset of type 1 diabetes received approval from the US Food and Drug Administration on Thursday.
  2. An extremely complex drug, vaccine or antitoxin that is made from a living organism, or…

    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.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for biologic. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA