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Entry 2 senses Webster, 1913

Pyrogen

· Pyr·o·gen · IPA
01 n. Electricity.
  1. 1.
    Electricity.[R.]
  2. 2.
    A poison separable from decomposed meat infusions, and supposed to be formed from albuminous matter through the agency of bacteria.(Physiol. Chem.)