Definition of Cytotoxins

1. Noun. (plural of cytotoxin) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Cytotoxins

1. cytotoxin [n] - See also: cytotoxin

Medical Definition of Cytotoxins

1. Substances elaborated by microorganisms, plants or animals that are specifically toxic to individual cells; they may be involved in immunity or may be contained in venoms. (12 Dec 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cytotoxins

cytotonic
cytotoxic
cytotoxic T-cell
cytotoxic T cell
cytotoxic T cells
cytotoxic T lymphocyte-specific serine protease
cytotoxic cell
cytotoxic drug
cytotoxic drugs
cytotoxic reaction
cytotoxic t-lymphocyte
cytotoxically
cytotoxicities
cytotoxicity
cytotoxin
cytotoxins (current term)
cytotrophoblast
cytotrophoblastic cells
cytotrophoblastic shell
cytotropic
cytotropic antibody
cytotropic antibody test
cytotropism
cytotype
cytozoic
cytozoon
cytozyme
cytula
cytulas
cyturia

Literary usage of Cytotoxins

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Preventive medicine and hygiene by Milton Joseph Rosenau (1917)
"cytotoxins If instead of red blood cells an animal is treated with the body cells or glandular cells of another species, it develops the power to dissolve ..."

2. A Practical Text-book of Infection, Immunity, and Specific Therapy: With by John Albert Kolmer (1915)
"This is probably a better term than cytolysin; but it is to be remembered that, so far as is now known, both cytolysins and cytotoxins are antibodies that ..."

3. A Text-book of Pathology by William George MacCallum, Harry Gideon Wells (1907)
"CHAPTER IX HEMOLYSIS AND SERUM cytotoxins cytotoxins JUST as precipitins can be obtained for ... cytotoxins."

4. Vincent d'Indy, sa vie et son �uvre by Milton Joseph Rosenau, Louis Borgex (1913)
"cytotoxins If instead of red blood cells an animal is treated with the body cells or glandular cells of another species, it develops the power to dissolve ..."

5. Infection, Immunity and Serum Therapy: In Relation to the Infectious by Howard Taylor Ricketts (1908)
"cytotoxins. Following the discovery of immune hemolytic serums it was a short step ... Metchnikoff gave the name of cytotoxins to those serums which destroy ..."

6. Chemical Pathology: Being a Discussion of General Pathology from the by Harry Gideon Wells (1907)
"... CHAPTER IX HEMOLYSIS AND SERUM cytotoxins cytotoxins JUST as precipitins can be obtained for ..."

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