antitoxin
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English
Etymology
Noun
antitoxin (plural antitoxins)
- (medicine) A medicine able to neutralize a toxin.
- 1949 August, The British Journal of Experimental Pathology 1949-08: Vol 30 Iss 4:
- 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.
- (medicine) An antibody capable of neutralizing specific toxins.
- 1895, Frantz Peckel Möller, Cod-liver Oil and Chemistry, page 442:
- 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.
Hyponyms
- (medicine to neutralize toxins): See antidote and antivenom (against venoms); antiserum (derived from animal fluids)
Derived terms
Translations
antibody to a specific toxin
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