Associations to the word «Anatoxin»

Wiktionary

ANATOXIN, noun. A bacterial toxin (usually an exotoxin) whose toxicity has been weakened or suppressed; toxoid
ANATOXIN, noun. Any of a group of neurotoxins produced by several species of cyanobacterium.

Dictionary definition

ANATOXIN, noun. A bacterial toxin that has been weakened until it is no longer toxic but is strong enough to induce the formation of antibodies and immunity to the specific disease caused by the toxin; "diphtheria toxoid".

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope