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).
Hans Christian Andersen's 1841 folk tale Ole LukÃ¸je introduced the Sandman, named Ole LukÃ¸je, by relating dreams he gave to a young boy in a week through his magical technique of sprinkling dust in the eyes of the children. Ole is a Danish name and LukÃ¸je means close eye.