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Definition of Toxoid

1. Noun. A bacterial toxin that has been weakened until it is no longer toxic but is strong enough to induce the formation of antibodies and immunity to the specific disease caused by the toxin. "Diphtheria toxoid"

Definition of Toxoid

1. n. An altered form of a toxin, possessing little or no toxic power.

Definition of Toxoid

1. Noun. A toxin that has had its toxic properties removed, but retains its ability to generate an immune response ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Toxoid

1. a type of toxin [n -S] - See also: toxin

Medical Definition of Toxoid

1. Nontoxic derivative of a bacterial exotoxin produced by formaldehyde or other chemical treatment: useful as a vaccine because it retains most antigenic properties of the toxin. (12 Jan 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Toxoid

Literary usage of Toxoid

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)
"2> toxoid: Same structure as ... group is lost,—and when this occurs the toxin is called toxoid (Fig. ..."

2. Presidential Advisory Committee on Gulf War Veterans' Illnesses: Final Report edited by Joyce C Laslof, Marguerite Knox, John D Baldeschwieler (1997)
"Anthrax and Botulinum toxoid Vaccines Before US troops deployed to the Gulf region, they received a standard series of inoculations against infectious ..."

3. A Manual of Bacteriology by Herbert Upham Williams (1908)
"A part of the toxoid has less affinity than the toxin; a part equal; a part more. ... All crude toxin, then, is composed of a mixture of toxin, toxoid and ..."

4. The Journal of Comparative Pathology and Therapeutics (1888)
"staphylococcal mastitis in goats and cows in full lactation can be prevented by vaccination with an adjuvant cell-toxoid prepared from the homologous strain ..."

5. Pathogenic Micro-organisms: Including Bacteria and Protozoa; a Practical by William Hallock Park, Anna Wessels Williams (1905)
"When they injected rabbits with this non-poisonous tetanus toxoid in increasing ... It might be that the toxoid no longer produced any physiological effect ..."

6. Collected Studies on Immunity by Paul Ehrlich (1906)
"self to a single mixture, -but analyzes a great many different mixtures in w|}ich the relation of toxin-alkaloid and toxoid-alkaloid vanes.i It is all the ..."

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