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Definition of Autotoxins
1. autotoxin [n] - See also: autotoxin
Lexicographical Neighbors of Autotoxins
Literary usage of Autotoxins
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Dublin Journal of Medical Science (1899)
"Moreover, the autotoxins are indirectly harmful, since they weaken the power of
... Now, as we know that these organic bases—toxins as well autotoxins—are ..."
2. Therapeutic Gazette (1916)
"The serum treatment is based upon the view that normally the thyroid secretion
acts as an antidote to certain autotoxins developed elsewhere in the body, ..."
3. Biological Bulletin by Marine Biological Laboratory (Woods Hole, Mass.) (1911)
"These "autotoxins," as the name implies, affect the organism producing them as
well as various other species, although, ..."
4. Collected Studies on Immunity by Paul Ehrlich (1906)
"The formation of tissue autotoxins would therefore constitute a danger threatening
the organism more frequently and much more severely than all ..."
5. Nursing Mental Diseases by Harriet Bailey (1920)
"... autotoxins are substances which are produced in the body in the process of
metabolism and because of faulty elimination are retained in the body, ..."
6. A Practical Text-book of Infection, Immunity, and Specific Therapy: With by John Albert Kolmer (1915)
"These may be produced when part of a kidney becomes disorganized in the living
body, as by means of a toxin. Theoretic autotoxins may ..."
7. Twentieth Century Practice: An International Encyclopedia of Modern Medical by Thomas Lathrop Stedman (1897)
"... absorbed from the intestine or introduced into the general circulation, as
well as to autotoxins of intestinal origin, it may be assumed that it also ..."
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