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Definition of Endotoxins
1. endotoxin [n] - See also: endotoxin
Medical Definition of Endotoxins
1. Toxins closely associated with the living cytoplasm or cell wall of certain microorganisms, which do not readily diffuse into the culture medium, but are released upon lysis of the cells. (12 Dec 1998)
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Literary usage of Endotoxins
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1. Preventive Medicine and Hygiene by Milton Joseph Rosenau, George Chandler Whipple, John William Trask, Thomas William Salmon (1921)
"endotoxins In contradistinction to the soluble or exotoxins, there is a group of
poisons known as endotoxins. The existence of endotoxins was taken for ..."
2. Pathological physiology of internal diseases by Albion Walter Hewlett (1916)
"endotoxins The vast majority of infectious microorganisms, and notably the typhoid
bacillus, the plague bacillus and the cholera spirillum, ..."
3. Monographic Medicine by Albion Walter Hewlett, Henry Leopold Elsner (1916)
"endotoxins The vast majority of infectious microorganisms, and notably the typhoid
bacillus, the plague bacillus and the cholera spirillum, ..."
4. A Practical Text-book of Infection, Immunity, and Specific Therapy: With by John Albert Kolmer (1915)
"In the body, the endotoxins are probably liberated either by autolysis or by ...
Nature of endotoxins.—Owing to their insoluble nature, endotoxins in pure ..."
5. Vincent d'Indy, sa vie et son �uvre by Milton Joseph Rosenau, Louis Borgex (1913)
"endotoxins In contradistinction to the soluble or exotoxins, there is a group of
poisons known as endotoxins. The existence of endotoxins was taken for ..."
6. A Text Book of General Bacteriology by William Dodge Frost, Eugene Franklin McCampbell (1910)
"The majority of bacteria produce endotoxins, and it is to these poisonous chemical
substances that the ... These endotoxins are liberated by the action ..."
7. 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. ..."
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