For other uses, see Vaccine (disambiguation). A vaccine is a biological preparation that provides active acquired immunity to a particular disease. A vaccine typically contains an agent that resembles a disease-causing microorganism and is often made from weakened or killed forms of the microbe, its toxins or one of its surface proteins.
[ 2 syll. e-gil, eg-il ] The baby boy name Egil is pronounced as EH-GahL â . Egil is primarily used in Scandinavian and it is of Old Norse origin. Original forms of the name include Aghi (Old Norse) and Egill (Old Norse).
Other English variants include the pet forms Fred (also used in Dutch), Mannie, and Manny. Manfredi (Italian) and Manfredo (Italian) are variations of Manfred that are used in foreign languages. The shortening Fredi (German) is another foreign variation. Manfred is not popular as a baby name for boys.ainfred (Old French) and Manfried (Germanic) are older forms of the name. The name is of the first element man, magin (meaning 'strength, power') or manag, combined with the second element fridu ('peace, protection, safety').