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What does antitoxic mean?

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Adjective
  1. (immunology) that counteracts a toxin or poison
  2. of, or relating to an antitoxin
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The antitoxic theory suffers from the fact that the toxic origin of scurvy cannot be established.
As to antitoxic immunity, it is very probably due to the intracellular digestion of toxins by the different macrophages.
Miso is a fermented paste that is rich in probiotics, has antitoxic properties and is very beneficial to our health.
The pharmacological or biochemical mechanism of this antitoxic action has not yet been proved.
The immunity produced by injections of antitoxic sera lasts only for a comparatively short time, seldom longer than a few weeks.
The antitoxic property is developed in a susceptible animal by successive and gradually increasing doses of the toxin.

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