Definition of Hemotoxin

1. Noun. Any toxin that destroys red blood cells ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Hemotoxin

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hemotoxin

hemosiderin
hemosiderins
hemosiderosis
hemostases
hemostasia
hemostasis
hemostat
hemostatic
hemostatics
hemostats
hemotaphonomy
hemothorax
hemotoxic
hemotoxicity
hemotoxin (current term)
hemotoxins
hemotoxylin
hemovanadin
hemovigilance
hemovore
hemozoin
hemp
hemp-nettle
hemp-nettles
hemp-vine
hemp-vines
hemp agrimony
hemp family
hemp milk

Literary usage of Hemotoxin

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

1. The Journal of Experimental Medicine by Rockefeller University, Rockefeller Institute, Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research (1920)
"However, the ability to produce hemotoxin in bouillon seems to be a definite characteristic of certain strains of streptococci. Since hemolytic power is a ..."

2. International Medical and Surgical Surveyby American Institute of Medicine by American Institute of Medicine (1922)
"1J. welchii produces in cultures a hemotoxin the potency of which can be measured in vitro; the same substance is found in the precipitate obtained from ..."

3. Therapeutic Gazette (1912)
"Cobra venom has neurotoxin in excess, with less hemotoxin, while the poison of the ... with less neurotoxin and hemotoxin. The copperhead and moccasin are ..."

4. A Practical Text-book of Infection, Immunity, and Specific Therapy: With by John Albert Kolmer (1915)
"The hemotoxin is readily formed in cultures of staphylococci; roughly, the amount produced depends upon the virulence of the culture. ..."

5. Immunity, Methods of Diagnosis and Therapy and Their Practical Application by Julius Bernhard Citron (1914)
"Working on the principle that in staphylo- coccus diseases, a hemotoxin is ... The hemotoxin content is approximated according to the following scheme: ..."

6. Studies in Immunity by Jules Bordet (1909)
"A serum with antitoxic properties for the hemotoxin that we have been ... The hemotoxin when injected subcutaneously into rabbits in a small dose produces ..."

7. Principles of Immunology by Howard Thomas Karsner, Enrique Eduardo Ecker (1921)
"This hemotoxin effects hemolysis only in conjunction with a so-called ... The reaction between the hemotoxin and lecithin is essentially a chemical reaction ..."

8. Bacteriology, General, Pathological and Intestinal by Arthur Isaac Kendall (1921)
"... to the hemotoxin of the staphylococcus ... so obtained will neutralize the hemotoxin. Leukocidin. ..."

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