Antitoxin

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Antitoxin \An`ti*tox"in\, Antitoxine \An`ti*tox"ine\, n. [Pref.
     anti- + toxin.]
     A substance (sometimes the product of a specific
     micro-organism and sometimes naturally present in the blood
     or tissues of an animal), capable of producing immunity from
     certain diseases, or of counteracting the poisonous effects


     of pathogenic bacteria.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  antitoxin
       n : an antibody that can neutralize a specific toxin

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  31 Moby Thesaurus words for "antitoxin":
     Rh factor, agglutinin, allergen, anaphylactin, antiantibody,
     antibody, antigen, antiserum, antitoxic serum, antivenin, bang,
     booster, booster shot, fix, hit, hypodermic, hypodermic injection,
     incomplete antibody, injection, inoculation, interferon,
     jet injection, mainlining, narcotic injection, precipitin, serum,
     shooting up, shot, skin-popping, vaccination, vaccine