एक विष या जहर का प्रतिकार करना

Adjective:

प्रतिजीवविषज,

antitoxic's Usage Examples:

not antitoxic. In addition to the protective action, such a serum may possess activities which can be demonstrated_ outside the body.

It has, moreover, been found that the serum of various animals has a certain amount of antitoxic action, and thus the basis for antitoxin production, according to Ehrlich's theory, is afforded.

In the case of diphtheria the antitoxic power of the serum may reach Boo units per cubic centimetre, or even more.

The injections are made subcutaneously and afterwards intravenously; and, while the dose must be gradually increased, care must be taken that this is not done too quickly, otherwise the antitoxic power of the serum may fall and the health of the animal suffer.

So far as bacterial immunity is concerned, the anti-serum exerts its action either on the toxin or on the bacterium itself; that is, its action is either antitoxic or anti-bacterial.

An antitoxic serum has been prepared from horses by the Institut Pasteur in France, but has not met with success.

The antitoxic property is developed in a susceptible animal by successive and gradually increasing doses of the toxin.

The antitoxic serum when injected enttinoxic previously to the toxin also confers immunity (passive) against it; when injected after the toxin it has within certain limits a curative action, though in this case its dose requires to be large.

The term " antitoxic " signifies that serum has the power of neutralizing the action of the toxin, as is shown by mixing them together outside the body and then injecting them into an animal.

Immunity against toxins also became a subject of investigation, and the result was the discovery of the antitoxic action of the serum of animals immunized against tetanus toxin by E.

antitoxic's Meaning':

counteracting a toxin or poison

Synonyms:

atoxic, nontoxic,

Antonyms:

toxic, harmful, inedible,