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adj. - Counteracting a toxin or poison.

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  • It has an anti-infectious action brought about by internal disinfection, but is, in this respect, in contrast to the anti-bacterial disinfectant treatment methods which, for...
  • The term "antitoxic" signifies that serum has the power of neutralizing the action of the toxin, as is shown by mixing them together outside the body and then injecting...
  • The detoxicating, or as it is also called, the antitoxic serum therapy, is, on the other hand, humoral therapy.
  • For this reason, these bodies were called antitoxins and the immunity so produced was called antitoxic immunity.
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