Antitoxic is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 20 points.
You can make 196 anagrams from letters in antitoxic (aciinottx).
First recorded in 1885-90; anti- + toxic
The term "antitoxic" signifies that serum has the power of antitoxic serum.
He is antitoxic; he is a literary germicide of peculiar power.
Thus antimicrobian immunity and antitoxic immunity constitute in most cases two distinct properties.
An antitoxic serum has been prepared at the Koch Institute in Berlin.
In other words, it is thought to have an "antitoxic" action.
Hence the immunity may be antibacterial or antitoxic or both.
The antitoxic property is developed in a susceptible animal by successive and gradually increasing doses of the toxin.
As to antitoxic immunity, it is very probably due to the intracellular digestion of toxins by the different macrophages.
The immunity produced by injections of antitoxic sera lasts only for a comparatively short time, seldom longer than a few weeks.
The antitoxic theory suffers from the fact that the toxic origin of scurvy cannot be established.
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