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  1. Interfix.  (italbrac, in coining neologisms) A vowel inserted interconsonantally between morphemes of Latinate origin in order to ease pronunciation (an anaptyxis, a linking vowel).
  2. Affix.  (pharmacology) a monoclonal antibody derived from a non-human primate source.

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