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- noun Plural form of
antitoxin .
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Examples
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Passive immunization means administering antibodies or antitoxins from another source to protect the recipient.
Vaccine Science 2010
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Research was ongoing into a wide array of ingredients: antibiotics, lipids, antitoxins, histamines, thiols, hormones, steroids and practically every antioxidant known to humankind.
Venom Joan Brady 2010
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The biological universe was full of molecules picking out their partners like clever locks designed to fit a key: toxins clinging inseparably to antitoxins, dyes that highlighted only particular parts of cells, chemical stains that could nimbly pick out one class of germs from a mixture of microbes.
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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A few years later, Ehrlich found that certain toxins, injected into animals, could generate “antitoxins,” which bound and inactivated poisons with extraordinary specificity these antitoxins would later be identified as antibodies.
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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The biological universe was full of molecules picking out their partners like clever locks designed to fit a key: toxins clinging inseparably to antitoxins, dyes that highlighted only particular parts of cells, chemical stains that could nimbly pick out one class of germs from a mixture of microbes.
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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The biological universe was full of molecules picking out their partners like clever locks designed to fit a key: toxins clinging inseparably to antitoxins, dyes that highlighted only particular parts of cells, chemical stains that could nimbly pick out one class of germs from a mixture of microbes.
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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A few years later, Ehrlich found that certain toxins, injected into animals, could generate “antitoxins,” which bound and inactivated poisons with extraordinary specificity these antitoxins would later be identified as antibodies.
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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A few years later, Ehrlich found that certain toxins, injected into animals, could generate “antitoxins,” which bound and inactivated poisons with extraordinary specificity these antitoxins would later be identified as antibodies.
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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The antitoxins taken from his blood serum are the base for the vaccine.
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To nurse Los Angeles through these fevers, Mayor Tom Bradley has developed a number of antitoxins.
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