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antitoxic

American  
[an-ti-tok-sik, an-tee-] / ˌæn tɪˈtɒk sɪk, ˌæn ti- /

adjective

  1. counteracting toxic influences.

  2. of or serving as an antitoxin.


Etymology

Origin of antitoxic

First recorded in 1885–90; anti- + toxic

Example Sentences

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She campaigned for ventilation, antitoxic rinses, safeguards of all kinds.

From Time Magazine Archive

Unless an antitoxic serum is administered, death from respiratory paralysis usually follows.

From Time Magazine Archive

He is antitoxic; he is a literary germicide of peculiar power.

From The Last Harvest by Burroughs, John

The immunity produced by injections of antitoxic sera lasts only for a comparatively short time, seldom longer than a few weeks.

From Manual of Surgery Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition. by Thomson, Alexis

These circumstances serve, in part at least, to explain the fact that the success attending the use of anti-bacterial sera has been much inferior to that in the case of antitoxic sera.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" by Various

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