toxico-, toxic-, toxi-, tox-, toxin-, -toxically, -toxaemia, -toxemia, -toxaemic, -toxemic, -toxical, -toxy, -toxis, -toxicosis, -toxism, -toxia, -toxin, -toxicity
(Greek: poison)
This Greek element originally meant "bow", then it became "arrow", then a "poisoned arrow" and finally "poison". In most cases, toxico- means poison, but in a few situations it refers to the original meaning of "arrow", as in toxophilite and toxophily; "love of or fondness for archery", and so it shouldn't be confused with toxophil, toxophile, "having an affinity for or an attraction to a toxin or poison'.
antitoxin
apitoxin
atoxic (adjective), more atoxic, most atoxic
Characteristic of not being poisonous nor harmful to people, animals, or the environment: Rory, the farmer, made sure that he was using ataxic fertilizers in his fields so no living creatures would be harmed.
autoantitoxin
1. Anitoxin produced by the body itself.
2. An antitoxin produced by an individual that will inhibit the action of a toxin released from the tissues of that same individual.
2. An antitoxin produced by an individual that will inhibit the action of a toxin released from the tissues of that same individual.
autointoxicant
1. A harmful substance generated within the body.
2. An endogenous toxic agent that causes autointoxication.
2. An endogenous toxic agent that causes autointoxication.
autointoxication
1. A disorder resulting from absorption of the waste products of metabolism, decomposed matter from the intestine, or the products of dead and infected tissue as in gangrene.
2. Poisoning with toxic substances formed within the body, as during intestinal digestion.
3. Poisoning by metabolic products elaborated within the body; generally, toxemia of pathologic states.
2. Poisoning with toxic substances formed within the body, as during intestinal digestion.
3. Poisoning by metabolic products elaborated within the body; generally, toxemia of pathologic states.
autonephrotoxin
A toxin directed against the kidneys of the organism in which it was produced.
autotoxemia
Poisoning by harmful substances generated within the body itself.
autotoxic
A poison that acts on the organism in which it is generated.
autotoxic pruritus
Pruritus attributed to endogenous toxins, as in jaundice, uremia, etc.
autotoxicosis, autotoxemia, autotoxis
The same thing as autointoxication or poisoning by harmful substances generated within the body itself.
autotoxin
Any harmful substance generated within the body; self poisonous.
autoxenous
A reference to a parasite that passes through the different stages of its life cycle in the same host individual.
autoxidation, auto-oxidation, autooxidation
1. The oxidation by direct combination with oxygen (as in air) at ordinary temperatures: "The rancidity of fats and oils is caused by autoxidation."
2. The combination of a substance with molecular oxygen at ordinary temperatures.
2. The combination of a substance with molecular oxygen at ordinary temperatures.
bacteriotoxemia
