Noun:

செடி கொடி விலங்குகளில் நோய் கிருமிகளால் உண்டான நஞ்சு,

toxin's Usage Examples:

clostridium tetani produces its clinical effects via a powerful exotoxin.

"Further, these molecules in the nervous system present the same susceptibility to heat and other physical agencies as does tetanus antitoxin.

wound botulism is caused by toxin produced from a wound infected with Clostridium botulinum.

For example, if 'co doses of toxin were neutralized by a unit of antitoxin (v.

In 1904 he delivered at the university of California a course of lectures, the object of which was to illustrate the application of the methods of physical chemistry to the study of the theory of toxins and antitoxins, and which were published in 1907 under the title Immunochemistry.

An incapacitating agent called aflatoxin, which produces vomiting and internal bleeding, was manufactured at Baghdad¹s Agricultural and Water Research Center.

It is probable that the kidneys also have an internal secretion, and that the great oedema sometimes found in kidney disease is rather due to the action of some proteid body resembling in its effects the streptococcus anti-toxin, than to accumulation of water due to imperfect action of the kidney.

These bacteria produce a toxin in food which causes a severe illness called botulism which can be fatal.

This is an increased exudation of fluid from the engorged blood vessels which not only dilutes the toxins, but is supposed to contain substances which in some way act on these living micro-organisms and render them a more easy prey to the polymorpho-nuclear leucocytes (fig.

A healthy person can be rendered insusceptible by gradually accustoming him to increasing doses of these poisons, and this immunity is due to antitoxins which are found in the blood-serum and which are products of the blood cells.

Foodborne botulism is caused by ingestion of the botulinum neurotoxin, which is produced during growth of the organism in food.

diphtheria toxin interferes with protein synthesis which ultimately kills the cancer cell.

In humans, botulinum toxin latches onto specific proteins in nerve endings and irreversibly destroys them.

Synonyms:

bacterial toxin, hepatotoxin, neurotoxin, poison, endotoxin, poisonous substance, toxicant, ricin, plant toxin, nephrotoxin, cytotoxin, ricin toxin, neurolysin, animal toxin, phytotoxin, zootoxin, exotoxin,

Antonyms:

constructiveness, nontoxic, exotoxin, endotoxin,