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).
The name was very prevalent in the local football team IFK Goeteborg gÃ¶teborg which in the early 1980s had no fewer than four players Named, glenn Including Glenn hysen HysÃ©n And. Glenn Stroemberg strÃ¶mberg the swedish Name is not, gaelic in origin but rather Derived From The, norse god glenr being Part of. the viking revivaln the 19th century, Glenn also became common as a given name in English speaking cultures. In Sweden, Glenn is relatively common first name in the western parts of the country but especially Gothenburg, originally due to a large and influential population of emigrated Scotsmen, especially in the city's early centuries.