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Definition of Hepatotoxin
1. Noun. Any toxin that affects the liver.
Definition of Hepatotoxin
1. Noun. Any substance that causes hepatotoxicity ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Medical Definition of Hepatotoxin
1. A toxin that is destructive to parenchymal cells of the liver. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hepatotoxin
Literary usage of Hepatotoxin
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Practical Text-book of Infection, Immunity, and Specific Therapy: With by John Albert Kolmer (1915)
"... and frequently cause degenerative lesions in the liver, due in part to hemolysis
and hemagglutination of red corpuscles. 5. hepatotoxin. ..."
2. Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine (1903)
"(13), using various halogen- ated methane derivatives, found that the potency of
the hepatotoxin was directly related to the degree of irreversible binding ..."
3. Cocaine Use in America: Epidemmiologic and Clinical Perspectives edited by Nicholas J. Kozel, Edgar H. Adams (1996)
"In humans and animals that esterify cocaine, a hepatotoxin is not formed. In those
species in which the major metabolic pathway is nor- cocaine, ..."
4. A Textbook of bacteriology: A Practical Treatise for Students and by Hans Zinsser, Frederick Fuller Russell (1922)
"... neurotoxin and hepatotoxin; Surmont,47 pancreas cytotoxin; and Bogart and
Bernard,48 suprarenal cytotoxin. "Bordet, Ann. de 1'inst. Pasteur, 1898. ..."
5. Transactions of the Association of American Physicians by Association of American Physicians (1903)
"As the hepatotoxin and hemolysin also exerted an action upon the renal function,
an additional proof of the correlative action of these serums is at hand. ..."
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