Definition of Exotoxins

1. Noun. (plural of exotoxin) ¹

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Definition of Exotoxins

1. exotoxin [n] - See also: exotoxin

Medical Definition of Exotoxins

1. Toxins produced, especially by bacterial or fungal cells, and released into the culture medium or environment. (12 Dec 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Exotoxins

exoticists
exoticization
exoticizations
exoticize
exoticized
exoticizes
exoticizing
exotick
exoticness
exoticnesses
exotics
exotism
exotisms
exotoxic
exotoxin
exotoxins (current term)
exotropia
exotropias
exotropic
exozodi
exozodiacal
exozodis
exp.
expand
expandabilities
expandability
expandable
expanded
expanded access
expanded form

Literary usage of Exotoxins

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

1. Medical Diagnosis for the Student and Practitioner by Charles Lyman Greene (1917)
"exotoxins and Endotoxins.—A distinction is drawn between "true" toxins "exotoxins") such as those of diphtheria, tetanus, B. botulinus and B. ..."

2. Principles of Immunology by Howard Thomas Karsner, Enrique Eduardo Ecker (1921)
"The bacterial toxins are classified as exotoxins and endotoxins, ... Certain bacteria, such as diphtheria and tetanus, produce only exotoxins, ..."

3. Principles of Immunology by Howard Thomas Karsner, Enrique Eduardo Ecker (1921)
"The bacterial toxins are classified as exotoxins and endotoxins, ... Certain bacteria, such as diphtheria and tetanus, produce only exotoxins, ..."

4. Pathogenic microorganisms by William Hallock Park (1920)
"The extracellular soluble toxins, exotoxins, are produced by only a limited ... The essential characteristics of exotoxins, are (1) their great lability, ..."

5. A Text-book of General Bacteriology by Edwin Oakes Jordan (1921)
"All of the foregoing statements relate to the so-called exotoxins or ... Relatively few pathogenic bacteria have been shown to produce exotoxins. ..."

6. Immunity and Specific Therapy by Walter d'Este Emery (1909)
"Thus the exotoxins differ from the enzymes mainly in the fact that each ... which resemble the exotoxins in many respects, and might well be called the ..."

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