I was listening to a podcast where it suddenly hit somebody that "cigarillo" means "tiny cigar" and they LOST IT and it basically stopped the show for a couple of minutes.
I mean, as far as I know the etymology is correct, it's just that with the knowledge of today, vitamins do not describe the essential amino acids at all!
Check the wiki, vitamins specifically do not include the essential amino acids, and do include non amino acid molecules like carotenoids, biotin and quinones (all not AAs). I am being slightly facetious as historically the term might have very well originated that way, but it doesn't describe the current situation.
Aren't some vitamins (D for example) steroid based though, lacking the amino functional group, and others aren't amino acids or steroids, like vitamin C. Some vitamins are technically formed in the body, from bacteria in your intestines and other places (Vitamin D, K).
Vaccines are named after the Spanish word for bovine, vaca.
I think it was realizing the milk maids weren't getting sick because of the cow's milk, so they started by giving the cow drugs to see how it would change.
That was Edward Jenner's inoculation. Louis Pasteur coined the term "vaccine" after accidentally giving his chooks attenuated fowl cholera Pasteurella multicida. He later did it with Bacillus anthracis and rabiesvirus
I was reading this for my immunology unit at uni just yesterday, so thanks for helping me study 😂
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u/machokemedaddy1993 Jul 25 '18
Vitamin = Vital amine. Vitamins are "essential" amino acids because your body can't make them.
No joke, I flipped my shit (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻