| 单词 | toxin |
| 释义 | toxin (once / 5151 pages) n A toxin is an organic poison — it’s made by plants and animals. Toxins make people sick. If your appendix bursts, toxins are released into your blood stream. Also breathing in a toxin like ricin will make you very ill. Toxins are naturally occurring poisons. There are the toxins your body creates and some that animals and plants excrete. Some are harmful — getting stung by a stingray can kill you because its toxin is powerful. Toxin is the noun form of toxic. The most dangerous kind of toxin is the botulinus toxin, which is the kind found in the bacteria of spoiled food and is used to make Botox. Another dangerous toxin, ricin, is made from castor beans. WORD FAMILYtoxin: antitoxin, toxins+/antitoxin: antitoxins USAGE EXAMPLESOn the southern coast, Long Beach and Twin Harbors won’t be open until marine toxin levels decrease. Seattle Times(Dec 28, 2016) On southern coast, Long Beach and Twin Harbors won’t be open until marine toxin levels decrease. Seattle Times(Dec 28, 2016) Detoxification, or “detox” diets, claim to eliminate toxins from the body in order to promote health and weight loss. Seattle Times(Dec 28, 2016) n a poisonous substance produced during the metabolism and growth of certain microorganisms and some higher plant and animal species Hypo|Hyper ricin, ricin toxin a toxic protein extracted from castor beans; used as a chemical reagent; can be used as a bioweapon animal toxin, zootoxina toxin resembling bacterial toxins in its antigenic properties that is found in the fluids of certain animals bacterial toxinany endotoxin or exotoxin formed in or elaborated by bacterial cells cytotoxinany substance that has a toxic effect on cells endotoxina toxin that is confined inside the microorganisms and is released only when the microorganisms are broken down or die exotoxina toxin that is secreted by microorganisms into the surrounding medium hepatotoxinany toxin that affects the liver nephrotoxinany toxin that affects the kidneys neurolysin, neurotoxinany toxin that affects neural tissues phytotoxin, plant toxinany substance produced by plants that is similar in its properties to extracellular bacterial toxin botulinum toxinany of several neurotoxins that are produced by the anaerobic bacterium Clostridium botulinum; causes muscle paralysis domoic acida neurotoxin that is deadly for humans; found in various marine algae Clostridium perfringens epsilon toxin, epsilon toxina bacterial toxin produced by clostridium perfringens; causes intense abdominal cramps and diarrhea that begins 8-22 hours after consumption of foods containing large numbers of these bacteria nicotinean alkaloid poison that occurs in tobacco; used in medicine and as an insecticide strychninean alkaloid plant toxin extracted chiefly from nux vomica; formerly used as a stimulant brucinea bitter alkaloid poison resembling strychnine and extracted from nux vomica hemlockpoisonous drug derived from an Eurasian plant of the genus Conium saxitoxina powerful neurotoxin produced by certain dinoflagellates found in red tides; it can accumulate in mollusks that feed on the dinoflagellates and cause food poisoning to humans anatoxin, toxoida 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 botulin, botulinus toxin, botulismotoxinpotent bacterial toxin produced by the bacterium Clostridium botulinum that causes botulism; can be used as a bioweapon enterotoxina cytotoxin specific for the cells of the intestinal mucosa mycotoxina toxin produced by a fungus venomtoxin secreted by animals; secreted by certain snakes and poisonous insects (e.g., spiders and scorpions) kokoi venoma potent neurotoxin found in a particular frog tetrodotoxina powerful neurotoxin found in the ovaries of pufferfish curare, tubocurarinea toxic alkaloid found in certain tropical South American trees that is a powerful relaxant for striated muscles poison, poisonous substance, toxicant any substance that causes injury or illness or death of a living organism |
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