Toxin Definition

Toxin Sentence Examples

• The serum of the animal is tested from time to time against a known amount of toxin, i.e.

• By growing this bacillus in broth a toxin is formed which remains in solution and can be separated from the bacilli themselves by filtration.

• Then we have the property of adaptation, in which the negative reaction may be changed into a positive; a given toxin may at first repel the cell, but by a gradual process the cell becomes accustomed to such a toxin and will move towards it.

• Of such are tetanus and diphtheria, now known to be due to the establishment from without of a local microbic infection, from which focus a toxin is diffused to the nervous matter.

• Though an enormous of amount of work has been done on the subject, no important bacterial toxin has as yet been obtained in a pure condition, and, though many of them are probably of proteid nature, even this cannot be asserted with absolute certainty.