phage

[feyj]

phage

[feyj]

Origin:
by shortening, or independent use of -phage

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-phage

a combining form meaning “a thing that devours,” used in the formation of compound words, especially the names of phagocytes: macrophage.
Also, -phag.


Origin:
noun use of Greek -phagos -phagous
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phage (feɪdʒ)
 
n
short for bacteriophage

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Medical Dictionary

phage (fāj)
n.
See bacteriophage.

-phage suff.
One that eats: macrophage.

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phage definition


A program that modifies other programs or databases in unauthorised ways; especially one that propagates a virus or Trojan horse. See also worm, mockingbird. The analogy, of course, is with phage viruses in biology.
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