antitoxin

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tetanus antitoxin
tetanos serumu
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An antibody that is capable of neutralising specific toxins that are causative agents of disease; microorganisms including viruses and bacteria
a substance which neutralizes the poisonous products of micro-organisms
an antibody that can neutralize a specific toxin
a medicine or substance produced by your body which stops the effects of a poison. Antibody formed in the body in reaction to a bacterial toxin, which it can neutralize. People who have recovered from bacterial diseases often develop specific antitoxins that give them immunity against recurrence. Injecting an animal (usually a horse) with increasing doses of toxin produces a high concentration of antitoxin in the blood. The resulting highly concentrated preparation of antitoxins is called an antiserum. The first antitoxin developed (1890) was specific to diphtheria; today, antitoxins are also used to treat botulism, dysentery, gas gangrene, and tetanus
{i} substance that counteracts toxins
A substance (sometimes the product of a specific micro-organism and sometimes naturally present in the blood or tissues of an animal), capable of producing immunity from certain diseases, or of counteracting the poisonous effects of pathogenic bacteria

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antitoxins
plural of antitoxin
tetanus antitoxin
antitoxin given for short-term immunization against tetanus in cases of possible exposure to the tetanus bacillus
toxin antitoxin
a mixture of toxin and antitoxin used to immunize against a disease
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