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Etymology edit

acro- +‎ dynamic

Adjective edit

acrodynamic (not comparable)

  1. (linguistics, Indo-European) Having the accent on the first syllable in all inflected forms.
  2. (linguistics, Indo-European, of root nominals) Having the accent on the root in the strong cases and on the desinence in the weak cases.
  3. (medicine) Giving rise to an acquired immunity.
    • 1891, New York Medical Journal - Volume 54, page 67:
      If the bacillus, discovered in 1884 by Lustgarten,” in Weigert's laboratory, is really the specific virus of syphilis, this bacillus undoubtedly belongs to the general acrodynamic bacteria, though giving rise to a remarkably slow dynamic evolution of the organisms, this latter remaining unusually long in the different states that correspond to the different degrees of the dynamic evolution of syphilis.
    • 1891, Leartus Connor, The American Lancet - Volume 15, page 357:
      Natural and acquired immunity against general acrodynamic bacteria represents the same condition of the system.

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