Definitions for antitoxin

antitoxin an·ti·tox·in

Spelling: [an-ti-tok-sin, an-tee-]
IPA: /ˌæn tɪˈtɒk sɪn, ˌæn ti-/

Antitoxin is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 16 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 128 anagrams from letters in antitoxin (aiinnottx).

Definitions for antitoxin

noun

  1. a substance, formed in the body, that counteracts a specific toxin.
  2. the antibody formed in immunization with a given toxin, used in treating certain infectious diseases or in immunizing against them.

Origin of antitoxin

First recorded in 1890-95; anti- + toxin

Examples for antitoxin

Take a thousand cases now, treated with antitoxin; how many of them die?

We have no antitoxin and no bacteriologic means of positive diagnosis.

This antitoxin should be administered only by a competent veterinarian.

Meanwhile the bacteriologists are steadily at work on a vaccine or antitoxin.

And in three minutes he had given all four an antitoxin injection.

Nearly the same thing might be said of antitoxin for diphtheria.

The bacillus remains after the use of antitoxin just as if antitoxin had not been used.

The antitoxin has been found, and it is applied successfully.

Rashes are produced in about one-third of the cases, and are attributable to the antitoxin.

If we wait until the disease develops, the antitoxin is of no value.

Word Value for antitoxin
Scrable

16

Words with friends

18

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