antitoxic, a. (n.)
(æntɪˈtɒksɪk)
[anti-1 3 b.]
Having the quality of counteracting the effect of a toxin; of the nature of an antitoxin. Also as n.
| 1890 Billings Med. Dict., Antitoxics, antidotes. 1894 Daily News 1 Dec. 3/4 The anti-toxic serum treatment of diphtheria. 1894 Liberal 24 Nov. 41/2 Bacterial products being gifted with an antitoxic power. 1905 G. A. Reid Princ. Heredity x. 124 ‘Passive’ immunity which results from the injection of antitoxic sera. 1946 Nature 19 Oct. 557/1 Thus electrophoresis can serve as control of the various factors..that govern the purification of antitoxic sera by means of enzyme digestion. |