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Toxine   Listen
noun
Toxine, Toxin  n.  A poisonous product formed by an organism, such as a pathogenic bacterium, a plant or an animal, usually having a high molecular weight, often a protein or a polysaccharide, but occasionally a low-molecular weight agent such as tetrodotoxin.






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"Toxine" Quotes from Famous Books



... Not less striking is the neighbourhood guild of science, born, too, of the telegraph. The day after Roentgen announced his X rays, physicists on every continent were repeating his experiments—were applying his discovery to the healing of the wounded and diseased. Let an anti-toxin for diphtheria, consumption, or yellow fever be proposed, and a hundred investigators the world over bend their skill to confirm or disprove, as if ...
— Little Masterpieces of Science: - Invention and Discovery • Various

... laminitis should be to remove the cause—to stop the absorption of the toxin in the intestinal tract that is producing the condition. This we accomplish by partially unloading it by the use of the active hypodermic cathartics and stopping absorption by the surest and most harmless of intestinal astringents. Whether the astonishingly ...
— Lameness of the Horse - Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1 • John Victor Lacroix

... 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



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