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Toxin   /tˈɑksən/   Listen
Toxin

noun
1.
A poisonous substance produced during the metabolism and growth of certain microorganisms and some higher plant and animal species.



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"Toxin" Quotes from Famous Books



... from the main herd," the optimistic reports announced. "We shall deal with the main herd first. This year the sacrifice will have to be made, but it will be the last. Scientists have at last hit upon an infallible toxin which will utterly destroy this menace within ...
— Astounding Stories of Super-Science, November, 1930 • Various
... when he can be persuaded to contribute a short and highly technical article to a medical magazine, receives a check for twenty-five guineas by return of post—a man of this kind is peculiarly open to the danger of thinking that anything which cannot be expressed in terms of Toxin is negligible nonsense. It is the characteristic danger of every specialist in every branch of knowledge; even theologians are ...
— None Other Gods • Robert Hugh Benson
... reading the paper that its author discussed merely the effect of toxins in disease upon the body-cells and the germ-cells, causing in the offspring either various forms of arrested and imperfect development or some degree of immunity. In the latter case he argues that the action of the toxin of the disease has been to set up certain molecular changes, certain alterations in the composition of the cell-substance so that the latter responds in a different manner when again brought into contact ...
— Hormones and Heredity • J. T. Cunningham
... about that, but you'll find a good many of us waiting. When you fellows develop an anti-toxin for the consumption 'bug,' we're all going ...
— The Tyranny of the Dark • Hamlin Garland


Words linked to "Toxin" :   ricin, poisonous substance, toxicant, poison, neurolysin, toxic


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