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antitoxin
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Antitoxin \An`ti*tox"in\, Antitoxine \An`ti*tox"ine\, n. [Pref. anti- + toxin.] A substance (sometimes the product of a specific micro-organism and sometimes naturally present in the blood or tissues of an animal), capable of producing immunity from certain diseases, or of counteracting the poisonous effects of pathogenic bacteria.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. An antibody that is capable of neutralising specific toxins that are causative agents of disease.
WordNet
n. an antibody that can neutralize a specific toxin
Wikipedia
An antitoxin is an antibody with the ability to neutralize a specific toxin. Antitoxins are produced by certain animals, plants, and bacteria. Although they are most effective in neutralizing toxins, they can kill bacteria and other microorganisms. Antitoxins are made within organisms, but can be injected into other organisms, including humans. This procedure involves injecting an animal with a safe amount of a particular toxin. Then, the animal’s body makes the antitoxin needed to neutralize the toxin. Later, the blood is withdrawn from the animal. When the antitoxin is obtained from the blood, it is purified and injected into a human or other animal, inducing passive immunity. To prevent serum sickness, it is often best to use antitoxin generated from the same species (e.g. use human antitoxin to treat humans).
Usage examples of "antitoxin".
On the night of Christmas, a child desperately sick with diphtheria cried and kicked a little as the needle of the first syringe full of antitoxin slid under its tender skin.
Buda-Pesth did not think of figures and they carried home the tidings of the antitoxin to all corners of the world, in a few years the antitoxin treatment of diphtheria became orthodox, and now there is not one doctor out of a thousand who will not swear that this antitoxin is a beautiful cure.
Park, and all over America, and in Germany, hundreds of thousands of babies and school-children are being ingeniously and safely turned into so many small factories for the making of antitoxin, so that they will never get diphtheria at all.
Then Behring took half of this lot of dying beasts, and into their bellies he injected a good heavy dose of the antitoxin from his immune sheep.
The antitoxin will take full effect within the next twenty-four to forty-eight hours.
Once Beryla and her lover left the lab, Hael Sejm went to the refrigeration unit and removed thirty-two vials of antitoxin, placing them on a tray with just that many syringes.
LeJong sat down behind her desk and stared at the remaining vials of antitoxin in the refrigeration unit.
Lee as to where he could obtain the CDC trivalent botulin antitoxin, stocks of which were kept at or near regional airports and Public Health Service Quarantine Stations all over the U.
Having arranged for the delivery of the antitoxin to the Willowbrook, Lee hurried back to the pediatric ICU, where Sunny was being hooked up to a battery of monitors.
However, there is a point at which prolonged use of the antitoxin could become .
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.
Surely, any doctor should be called guilty, in the light of what is known, who did not give the antitoxin to a threatened child.
But it is not completely proved, and it is too late now to prove it one way or another to the hilt, because, since all the world believes in the antitoxin, no man can be found heartless enough or bold enough to do the experiment which science demands.
Shortly we will have the information we need to produce some sort of serum, or antitoxin, for your protection, and this will be distributed freely to every human being in the United States.
Exciting research on new antitoxin therapy will likely reduce this risk much further in the future.