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epitoxoids

epitoxoids is the plural of epitoxoid.

Meaning of epitoxoid

Noun

epitoxoid (plural epitoxoids)

  1. (obsolete) A toxoid that generates less of an immune response than an original one
    • It is, however, probable that, in cases of diphtheria, death may be warded off by the displacement of combined epitoxoids in the antidiphtheritic serum, by free diphtheria toxine from the patient's blood, and the epitoxoid so liberated, though less dangerous to life, may still be able to set up...1900, H. Rainy, “On the action of diphtheria toxine on the spinal stichochrome cells”, in Journal of Pathology and Bacteriology, volume 6, page 449

Questions about epitoxoids

What is epitoxoids the plural of?
Epitoxoids is the plural of epitoxoid.

Words near epitoxoids in the dictionary

  1. epitope
  2. epitopes
  3. epitopic
  4. epitopically
  5. epitoxoid
  6. epitoxoids
  7. epitracheal
  8. epitrachelion
  9. epitrachelions
  10. epitranscriptome
  11. epitranscriptomes

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