- toxin
- A compound produced by one organism, which is deleterious to the growth and/or survival of another organism of the same or different species.
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Toxin — Personnage de fiction apparaissant dans Spider Man Alias Patrick Pat Mulligan (véritable identité), Larry (identité alternative), Fils de Carnage … Wikipédia en Français
toxin- — ⇒TOXIN(I) , TOXIN(O) , (TOXIN , TOXINI , TOXINO )élém. formants Élém. tiré du subst. toxine, entrant dans la constr. de termes sav. en méd. et biol.; le 2e élém. est gén. un élém. non autonome désignant l orig. de la formation ou le type d action … Encyclopédie Universelle
Toxin — Tox in, Toxine Tox ine, n. [Gr. toxiko n. See {Toxic}. ] A poisonous product formed by an organism, such as a pathogenic bacterium, a plant or an animal, usually having a high molecular weight, often a protein or a polysaccharide, but… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
toxin — toxin. См. токсин. (Источник: «Англо русский толковый словарь генетических терминов». Арефьев В.А., Лисовенко Л.А., Москва: Изд во ВНИРО, 1995 г.) … Молекулярная биология и генетика. Толковый словарь.
Toxin — Toxin,das:⇨Gift(1) … Das Wörterbuch der Synonyme
toxin — organic poison, especially one produced by bacteria in an animal body, 1886, from TOXIC (Cf. toxic) + IN (Cf. in) (2) … Etymology dictionary
toxin — *poison, venom, virus, bane … New Dictionary of Synonyms
toxin — [n] poison blight, cancer, contagion, contamination, germ, infection, noxious substance, poisonous substance, toxicant, toxoid, venom, virus; concepts 307,475,674,675 … New thesaurus
toxin — ► NOUN ▪ a poison produced by a micro organism or other organism and acting as an antigen in the body … English terms dictionary
toxin — [täk′sin] n. [ TOX(IC) + IN1] 1. any of various poisonous compounds produced by some microorganisms and causing certain diseases: see ENDOTOXIN, EXOTOXIN 2. any of various similar poisons, related to proteins, formed in certain plants, as ricin,… … English World dictionary
Toxin — This article is about the class of poisonous substances. For other uses, see Toxin (disambiguation). Universal warning symbol used to indicate toxic substances or environments A toxin (from Ancient Greek: τοξικόν toxikon) is a poisonous… … Wikipedia
