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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN cholera ▪ The secretory response to cholera toxin developed gradually. ▪ The first changes of net water and ion transport were observed after the second or third hour after administration of cholera toxin . ▪ Such a ...
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n. a poisonous substance produced during the metabolism and growth of certain microorganisms and some higher plant and animal species
Usage examples of toxin.
Iraq admits to producing anthrax, botulinum toxin, and aflatoxin for weaponization.
Both of them neutralize the placental toxin that causes the eclampsia of pregnancy.
He could picture one of the rival landholders salting the fishponds with an Atlas-derived toxin, something that would look like a natural bloom.
Look at the cavities here, that is where the toxins come from that fuddle him.
Increased hydration to carry toxins, extra fluids, and fat away from the area and out of the body.
Depleted, she toiled on, turning herself and Maulkin, using their bodies to disperse their mingled toxins to the entranced serpents.
The expert waited for the other to reassure her, meanwhile retrieving a complete suit readout indicating fatigue toxins and mild hypothermia and analyzing the vocal patterns to conclude that this individual was a pubertal human female, a native speaker of Gaesh with the accent common to the nearby merchanters of the Familias Regnant rather than that of the Guerni Republic.
He was the first man to show that complex animals-it was rotifers he used-produce a definite aging toxin as a normal part of their growth, and that it gets passed on to the offspring.
Most housing had been swallowed by beds of swampy fuzz, but a few buildings were so larded with chemical fungicides and brews of biological toxins that local bacilli and thallophytes had never established a foothold.
Mindfire toxin produced by a virulent mutation of the Veritas bacterium.
Owiginally we thought death was caused by pawalytic shellfish toxin, said the forensic pathologist, kills in half a seconddeath and wigor mortis are simultaneousbut we wuled that out.
The cult also was working with bioweapons, including anthrax and botulinum toxin.
It is somewhat reassuring that, even though it was extremely well financed and had access to scientific expertise, Aum Shinrikyo was unable to turn botulinum toxin, or anthrax, into an effective bioweapon.
We know that the Soviets also manufactured plague for use in weapons and researched other biological agents, including all those discussed in the chapters in this book, such as anthrax, tularemia, and botulinum toxin.
There was a considerable risk of increased toxin release due to cell destruction, but Lee was gambling on the CDC antitoxin countering the effect of any poison buildup.