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efficacious

/ef-i-key-shuhs/US // ˌɛf ɪˈkeɪ ʃəs //UK // (ˌɛfɪˈkeɪʃəs) //

具疗效的,具疗效,有效的,具效力的

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adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : capable of having the desired result or effect; effective as a means, measure, remedy, etc.: The medicine is efficacious in stopping a cough.

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Examples

  • It’s a huge ask of a drug that it be so safe and so efficacious that you can give it to everybody.

  • By early 2020, we had a tremendous amount of data showing that in the mouse model that we had developed, these mRNA spike vaccines were really efficacious in protecting against lethal MERS-CoV infection.

  • In a release on May 25, Moderna says its vaccine is safe and efficacious among 12- to 18-year olds.

  • If the studies show the new vaccine could be stable and efficacious at refrigerated temperatures, that could increase the number of places that could vaccinate with Moderna’s shot.

  • Several days later, however, the company issued another press release including additional data that showed the vaccine is 76% efficacious in protecting people from disease.

  • But Michele Bachmann, who has been a wallflower of late, may point the way to a more efficacious line of attack: crony capitalism.

  • I asked him if he thought cattle cars would be an efficacious means of transporting the Palestinians to their new homes.

  • He inclines to the use of the tepid bath, as likely to be the most generally efficacious.

  • I know not how to offer advice, and I am incapable of giving any efficacious help.

  • I can say from experience, that it is a powerful sudorific, and very efficacious in a cold.

  • However much the theologian may believe in prayer, he cannot deny that it is less efficacious than action.

  • The commissioners regarded the land purchase act as embodying the most simple and efficacious remedy for existing evils.