antitoxin

English

Etymology

From anti- +‎ toxin.

Noun

antitoxin (plural antitoxins)

1. (medicine) A medicine able to neutralize a toxin.
   • 1949 August, The British Journal of Experimental Pathology 1949-08: Vol 30 Iss 4‎^[1]:

     Through the needle-hole thus stained with dye it was possible to "superinject" antitoxin, using a slightly wider needle avoid back leak along the old needle track, and thus to ensure a distribution of both toxin and antitoxin solutions from the same point the skin.

2. (medicine) An antibody capable of neutralizing specific toxins.
   • 1895, Frantz Peckel Möller, Cod-liver Oil and Chemistry, page 442:

     These albuminous substances, whether found as normal products or created artificially in the blood, are distinguished as antitoxins, protective proteïds, vaccines, or alexines; physiologically they have been divided into sozines, those found in animals naturally immune, and phylaxines, those found in animals which by subcutaneous injections have artificially been made immune.

Hyponyms

• (medicine to neutralize toxins): See antidote and antivenom (against venoms); antiserum (derived from animal fluids)

Derived terms

• antiantitoxin

 

Translations

antibody to a specific toxin

• Arabic: تِرْيَاق m (tiryāq)
• Esperanto: antitoksino
• Finnish: antitoksiini
• Greek: αντιτοξίνη (el) f (antitoxíni)
• Irish: antatocsain f, fritocsain f
• Navajo: kʼaasdá bee yigą́
• Plautdietsch: Jäajenjeft n
• Polish: antytoksyna f
• Portuguese: antitoxina (pt) f
• Spanish: antitoxina (es) f
• Swedish: antitoxin (sv) n

See also

• immunity