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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
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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