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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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Clostridium perfringens epsilon toxin

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"Toxin" Quotes from Famous Books

... of a father who opposed tyranny in earlier days, who sounded the toxin for liberty."—Express ...

— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 156, Jan. 29, 1919 • Various

... I face reality and problems, and temptations and tricks and frauds and deceits, and after the day is over I write these lines and try to inoculate myself with a serum or toxin that will serve as a safeguard on the morrow to ward off the things which try to annoy and distract me from my purpose: to do, and to be, as nearly right and fair as I can, in act and thought ...

— Evening Round Up - More Good Stuff Like Pep • William Crosbie Hunter

... the case of a little girl who had somehow or other become sensitized to the protein of wasp toxin and who suffered almost immediate death from anaphylactic "choc" as the result of being stung by that insect. A second instance concerned a woman who went into violent asthmatic paroxysms if a mouse entered the room where ...

— The Sword and the Atopen • Taylor H. Greenfield

... neighbourhood guild of science, born, too, of the telegraph. The day after Roentgen announced his X rays, physicists on every continent were repeating his experiments—were applying his discovery to the healing of the wounded and diseased. Let an anti-toxin for diphtheria, consumption, or yellow fever be proposed, and a hundred investigators the world over bend their skill to confirm or disprove, as if the suggester dwelt ...

— Little Masterpieces of Science: - Invention and Discovery • Various

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