Empiric. Empirical treatment is used sometimes when antibiotics are given before the specific cause of an infection is known.

Riding In A Car. Amaxophobics have usually had a negative experience in a car.

Vaccination. Vaccines got their name from the Latin word for cow because the first vaccine was derived from a bovine virus.

Dow Corning. In 1962, the first women was implanted with a silicone breast prosthesis.