anatoxin

1. 1.

   a bacterial toxin that has been weakened until it is no longer toxic but is strong enough to induce the formation of antibodies and immunity to the specific disease caused by the toxin

   “diphtheria toxoid”

   Synonymstoxoid

   Broaderbacterial toxinantigen

Other forms of anatoxin

plural

anatoxins·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about anatoxin

What does anatoxin mean?

anatoxin means "a bacterial toxin that has been weakened until it is no longer toxic but is strong enough to induce the formation of antibodies and immunity to the specific disease caused by the toxin".

How many syllables are in anatoxin?

anatoxin has 4 syllables: a-na-tox-in. The stress falls on "na".

What is another word for anatoxin?

Close synonyms include toxoid. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is anatoxin a common word?

anatoxin is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.