autotoxin
noun
a toxin or poisonous chemical formed within the body and acting against it.
autotoxic
-
a word derived from
autotoxin.
Example Sentences
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The penalty of unmerited food had produced an autotoxic anaemia, and she was pale and weepy, easily fatigued, sleeping poorly, with the boggy thyroid and overactive tendon reflexes so common in subacidosis.
From Our Nervous Friends — Illustrating the Mastery of Nervousness by Robert S. Carroll
Ballet holds that all the various psychopathic disorders resulting from Bright's disease are autotoxic.
From The Journal of Abnormal Psychology, Volume 10 by Various
