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Antitoxin   /ˌæntitˈɑksən/   Listen
Antitoxin

noun
1.
An antibody that can neutralize a specific toxin.



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"Antitoxin" Quotes from Famous Books



... imagination. I hope they don't use them. What would become of my business if they did? How would you ever get a really dramatic news feature for the Star out of such a thing? 'Dotted line marks route taken by fatal germ; cross indicates spot where antitoxin attacked it'—ha! ha! not much for the yellow journals ...
— The Silent Bullet • Arthur B. Reeve

... world has advanced to antitoxin as a specific, leaving me nearly alone to plodding ways that are by sight and not by faith. That the treatment of my sick son in the absence of the only supposed specific was in advance of my time, the medical world cannot ...
— The No Breakfast Plan and the Fasting-Cure • Edward Hooker Dewey

... bloody, pustular discharge; and when it does attack the nose, it is none the less contagious and must be regarded just as seriously. A physician is called at once, and, not only to the child, but to the other members of the family, antitoxin is immediately administered. The disease runs a regular course and its most dangerous complication is the membrane which forms in the larynx and threatens to suffocate the child unless prompt intubation is performed—the slipping of a silver tube in the larynx to prevent ...
— The Mother and Her Child • William S. Sadler



Words linked to "Antitoxin" :   antivenene, antitoxic, antibody, antivenin



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