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endotoxins

endotoxins is the plural of endotoxin.

Meaning of endotoxin

Noun

endotoxin (plural endotoxins)

  1. Any toxin secreted by a microorganism and released into the surrounding environment only when it dies.
    • It may resemble the factor 5 in Salmonella, a heat-labile determinant on the endotoxin molecule which, because of its superficial location, blocks the agglutination reaction of the deeper heat-stable O antigens in the same way as do the Vi and K antigens.1966, Karina Dzintars Burda, A Study of Heat-labile Superficial Somatic Antigen of Vibrio Fetus, page 41

Questions about endotoxins

What is endotoxins the plural of?
Endotoxins is the plural of endotoxin.

Words near endotoxins in the dictionary

  1. endotoxin
  2. endotoxinaemia
  3. endotoxinemia
  4. endotoxinemic
  5. endotoxinic
  6. endotoxins
  7. endotracheal
  8. endotracheally
  9. endotransglucosylase
  10. endotransglucosylases
  11. endotransglucosylation

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