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noxa Med.|ˈnɒksə|
Pl. noxæ.
[L., = ‘hurt, damage’.]
Anything harmful to the body.
1894Gould Dict. Med. 877/2 Noxa, an injurious principle; especially a pathogeneic microörganism, or other materies morbi. 1960Blood & Henderson Vet. Med. I. iii. 44 The embryo..does not react to noxa in the same way as the fœtus since no inflammation or leucocytosis develops. 1966Ann. N.Y. Acad. Sci. CXXV. 884 What became obviously and inevitably clear..was the extreme ‘communicability’ of a purely symbolic ‘noxa’ in working with patients in the valley of the shadow of death. 1971Nature 2 July 18/2 Aspirin does not lessen pain in skin, elicited by noxious substances, but it does lessen pain in other sites, when elicited by similar noxae. |