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Definition of Detoxicate
1. Verb. Remove poison from. "Detoxify the soil"
Category relationships: Chemical Science, Chemistry
Generic synonyms: Remove, Take, Take Away, Withdraw
Derivative terms: Detoxification
Definition of Detoxicate
1. [v -CATED, -CATING, -CATES]
Medical Definition of Detoxicate
1. To diminish or remove the poisonous quality of any substance; to lessen the virulence of any pathogenic organism. Synonym: detoxify. Origin: L. De, from, + toxicum, poison (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Detoxicate
Literary usage of Detoxicate
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Physiology and biochemistry in modern medicene by John James Rickard Macleod (1922)
"... used mainly to detoxicate the benzoic acid which results from the oxidation
of the aromatic substances present in large quantities in vegetable food and ..."
2. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1917)
"We may infer that solutions of gelatine, peptone, amino-benzoic acid, cystin,
tyrosin and leucin detoxicate ultra-violet rays which pass through them, ..."
3. The Medical Clinics of North America by Michael C. Fiore, Stephen S. Entman, Charles B. Rush (1922)
"... but rather in the light of what defective kidneys should put out in order to
detoxicate blood that may be overloaded with poisonous products. ..."
4. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1908)
"They also think it probable that the phagocytes not only prevent further
multiplication of the diplococci, but also detoxicate the endotoxin by reducing it ..."
5. The Journal of Experimental Medicine by Rockefeller University, Rockefeller Institute, Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research (1907)
"... and which, in the next place, would tend to detoxicate it on its passage.
The effect, therefore, of the toxin would be exerted locally, if anywhere, ..."
6. Practical Organotherapy: The Internal Secretions in General Practice by Henry Robert Harrower (1922)
"... no matter whether it is focal or otherwise, every effort should be made to
detoxicate and to sedate the thyroid and the sympathetic system by means of ..."
7. International Medical and Surgical Surveyby American Institute of Medicine by American Institute of Medicine (1922)
"The authors also observed that although different species detoxicate phenylacetic
acid according to entirely different reactions, which yield completely ..."
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