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单词 toxin
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toxinn.

Brit. /ˈtɒksɪn/, U.S. /ˈtɑksən/
Forms: Also erroneous -ine.
Etymology: < tox- (in toxic adj.) + -in suffix1.
A specific poison, usually of an albuminous nature, esp. one produced by a microbe, which causes a particular disease when present in the system of a human or animal body.
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the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > poison > [noun] > poison causing a specific disease
toxin1890
the world > life > biology > substance > process stimulators or inhibitors > toxin > [noun]
toxin1890
autointoxicant1891
autotoxin1894
leucocidin1894
cytotoxin1900
toxon1900
nephrotoxin1902
toxonoid1904
zootoxin1906
leucotoxin1908
phalloidin1909
vivotoxin1953
victorin1954
phalloin1959
bungarotoxin1963
pathotoxin1963
trichothecene1971
1890 E. R. Lankester Advancem. Sci. iii. 168 In other cases the toxin and the vaccin seem almost certainly to be distinct.
1891 Lancet 3 Oct. 792 In a few cases..the introduction of the toxines secreted by the bacilli sufficed to set up a commencement of the process in the joints characteristic of rheumatism.
1904 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 10 Sept. 557 The union of toxin and antitoxin is dissociable.
1905 G. A. Reid Princ. Heredity ii. 21 Toxins, extremely complex chemical compounds, are defensive weapons which protect the organisms producing them from their enemies, the phagocytes of the blood and tissues.

Compounds

attributive and in other combinations.
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1896 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. I. 893 In order to produce an immunity all that is required is to render the body toxin-proof.
1902 Encycl. Brit. XXVI. 66/2 In the development of toxin-immunity the doses, small at first, are gradually increased.
1903 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 4 Apr. 784 No proof is afforded..of a separate toxophore group in the toxin molecule.
1904 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 10 Sept. 576 The chemical interpretation of toxin-antitoxin antagonism.
1910 P. H. Hiss & H. Zinsser Text-bk. Bacteriol. xiii. 204 This work..showed that the element of time entered into the toxin-antitoxin reaction, just as it enters into reactions of known chemical nature.
1923 Daily Mail 16 Feb. 5/2 Since May in that borough 250 children have been tested and protection has been conferred on 70 by injection of the toxin-anti-toxin mixture.
1951 L. E. H. Whitby & M. Hynes Med. Bacteriol. (ed. 5) vi. 70 Toxin-antitoxin mixtures become highly toxic if frozen.
1975 E. Nnochiri Med. Microbiol. in Tropics iii. 43/1 Large visible floccules may be produced following a toxin-antitoxin reaction.

Derivatives

toxinaemia n. /-ˈiːmɪə/ [Greek αἷμα blood] the presence of a toxin in the blood: cf. toxaemia n. at tox- comb. form , (toxicaemia n. at toxico- comb. form ).
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > disorders of blood > [noun] > blood poisoning
defoedation1583
blood poisoning1844
septicaemia1844
pyaemia1850
septaemia1851
toxaemia1860
ichorrhaemia1867
sapraemia1879
autotoxaemia1890
stercoraemia1890
toxanaemia1891
nosotoxicosis1892
toxinaemia1900
azotaemia1961
1900 A. H. Buck Ref. Handbk. Med. Sci. (rev. ed.) I. 284 Various toxæmic conditions..and the different toxinæmias induced by the infectious diseases—diphtheria and typhoid or typhus fever.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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