antitoxin
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 16
- Words With Friends
- 18
- Letters
- 9
Definition of antitoxin
2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
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(countable, uncountable)A medicine able to neutralize a toxin.
“Through the needle-hole thus stained with dye it was possible to "superinject" antitoxin, using a slightly wider needle avoid back leak along the old needle track, and thus to ensure a distribution of both toxin and antitoxin solutions from the same point the skin.”
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noun
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(countable, uncountable)A medicine able to neutralize a toxin.
“Through the needle-hole thus stained with dye it was possible to "superinject" antitoxin, using a slightly wider needle avoid back leak along the old needle track, and thus to ensure a distribution of both toxin and antitoxin solutions from the same point the skin.”
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(countable, uncountable)An antibody capable of neutralizing specific toxins.
“These albuminous substances, whether found as normal products or created artificially in the blood, are distinguished as antitoxins, protective proteïds, vaccines, or alexines; physiologically they have been divided into sozines, those found in animals naturally immune, and phylaxines, those found in animals which by subcutaneous injections have artificially been made immune.”
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Etymology
From anti- + toxin.
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