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Webster 1913 Edition


Antitoxine

{

Anˊti-tox′in

,

Anˊti-tox′ine

}
,
Noun.
[Pref.
anti-
+
toxin
.]
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.