Definition of Autotoxins

1. Noun. (plural of autotoxin) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Autotoxins

1. autotoxin [n] - See also: autotoxin

Lexicographical Neighbors of Autotoxins

autotomise
autotomize
autotomized
autotomizes
autotomizing
autotomous
autotomy
autotonsorialist
autotopagnosia
autotoxaemia
autotoxic
autotoxicities
autotoxicity
autotoxicosis
autotoxin
autotoxins (current term)
autotransformation
autotransformer
autotransformers
autotransfusion
autotransfusions
autotranslation
autotranslations
autotransplant
autotransplantation
autotriploid
autotroph
autotrophic
autotrophic organism
autotrophically

Literary usage of Autotoxins

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Dublin Journal of Medical Science (1899)
"Moreover, the autotoxins are indirectly harmful, since they weaken the power of ... Now, as we know that these organic bases—toxins as well autotoxins—are ..."

2. Therapeutic Gazette (1916)
"The serum treatment is based upon the view that normally the thyroid secretion acts as an antidote to certain autotoxins developed elsewhere in the body, ..."

3. Biological Bulletin by Marine Biological Laboratory (Woods Hole, Mass.) (1911)
"These "autotoxins," as the name implies, affect the organism producing them as well as various other species, although, ..."

4. Collected Studies on Immunity by Paul Ehrlich (1906)
"The formation of tissue autotoxins would therefore constitute a danger threatening the organism more frequently and much more severely than all ..."

5. Nursing Mental Diseases by Harriet Bailey (1920)
"... autotoxins are substances which are produced in the body in the process of metabolism and because of faulty elimination are retained in the body, ..."

6. A Practical Text-book of Infection, Immunity, and Specific Therapy: With by John Albert Kolmer (1915)
"These may be produced when part of a kidney becomes disorganized in the living body, as by means of a toxin. Theoretic autotoxins may ..."

7. Twentieth Century Practice: An International Encyclopedia of Modern Medical by Thomas Lathrop Stedman (1897)
"... absorbed from the intestine or introduced into the general circulation, as well as to autotoxins of intestinal origin, it may be assumed that it also ..."

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