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What is an antitoxin?

What is an antitoxin? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (immunology) An antibody that is capable of neutralising specific toxins that are causative agents of disease.
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Serum antitoxin levels of at least 0.01 antitoxin units per mL are generally regarded as protective.
Rashes are produced in about one-third of the cases, and are attributable to the antitoxin.
We want just one more new remedy, and that's an antitoxin for this polyphobia.
Administration of antitoxin prior to withdrawal of blood will result in a negative assay.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and some state health departments keep a supply of antitoxin against botulinum toxin.
If the toxin is a venom, the antitoxin formed, or the antiserum containing it, is called an antivenin.

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