antitoxin

Noun

antitoxin (countable and uncountable, plural antitoxins)

1. A medicine able to neutralize a toxin.
   • Through the needle-hole thus stained with dye it was possible to "superinject" antitoxin, using a slightly wider needle avoid back leak along the old needle track, and thus to ensure a distribution of both toxin and antitoxin solutions from the same point the skin.1949 August, The British Journal of Experimental Pathology 1949-08: Vol 30 Iss 4
2. An antibody capable of neutralizing specific toxins.
   • These albuminous substances, whether found as normal products or created artificially in the blood, are distinguished as antitoxins, protective proteïds, vaccines, or alexines; physiologically they have been divided into sozines, those found in animals naturally immune, and phylaxines, those found...1895, Frantz Peckel Möller, Cod-liver Oil and Chemistry, page 442