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Toxin

noun

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

... animals, subsequently arranged in order of susceptibility. Immune animals. Experimental inoculation, symptoms of disease. Post-mortem appearances. Virulence: Length of time maintained. Optimum medium? Minimal lethal dose. Exaltation and attenuation of virulence? Toxin formation. ...

— The Elements of Bacteriological Technique • John William Henry Eyre

... 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 with the toxin. Once this modification in the cell-substance is produced ...

— Hormones and Heredity • J. T. Cunningham

... rabbits were gently kept awake for one hundred hours by relays of students, an experiment which steadily withdrew energy but caused not the slightest physical or emotional injury to any of them; no drug, toxin, or other agent was given to them; they were given sufficient food and drink. In brief, the internal and external environments of these animals were kept otherwise normal excepting for the gentle ...

— The Origin and Nature of Emotions • George W. Crile

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