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.
Gender: Male. Usage: Egil, of Norse origin, is not a popular first name. It is more often used as a boy (male) name. People having the name Egil are in general originating from Denmark, Norway, Sweden. Meaning:
The usual Old Norse form of Norway is Noregr, and the usual mediaeval Latin form Nor(th)vegia, though the earliest known written occurrence of the name is English (in the late-ninth-century account of the travels of Ohthere of Halogaland), hÃ¥logaland in the form. norÃ°wegorway is north, so it makes sense why that is the meaning. i am very glad to help answer your question! True, about a thousand years ago it w â¦ as called NorÃ°rvegr meaning what the above answer says. Over time the name changed to Norge.