Toxoid

Definition: Toxoid

Toxoid

Noun

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".

Note: Toxoid \Tox"oid\, noun. [Toxin -oid.]. (Websters 1913)

Domain	Definition
Medicine	The material resulting from the treatment of toxin in such a way that the toxic properties are inactivated whilst the antigenic potency remains intact. Source: European Union. (references)
Metallurgy	Anything which transmits(e. g. , a photographic silver deposit)1/xth part of the light falling on it, is said to have an opacity of x. Source: European Union. (references)
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Synonym: Toxoid

Synonym: anatoxin (n). (additional references)

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	Tetanus toxoid reaction, arm of patient. Credit: CDC.		Prevent Diphtheria : Give Toxoid To Your Child. Credit: National Library of Medicine.
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Subject	Topic	Quote
Business		Due to growing demands for diagnostic kits and vaccines worldwide, Taiwan manufacturers have primarily been producing medical diagnostic kits, cholera vaccine, Japanese encephalitis vaccine, and toxoid. (references)
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"Toxoid" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 66.67% of the time. "Toxoid" is used about 6 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	66.67%	4	175,879
Noun (singular)	33.33%	2	245,945
Total	100.00%	6	N/A

Expression using "toxoid": Diphtheria Toxoid. Additional references.
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The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "toxoid"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Chinese		类�'� . (various references)

Danish		toxoid (anaphylactogen, anatoxin, anatoxine), anatoxin (anaphylactogen, anatoxin, anatoxine), anatoksin (anaphylactogen, anatoxin, anatoxine), anafylaktisk antigen (anaphylactogen, anatoxin, anatoxine). (various references)

Dutch		anatoxine (anaphylactogen, anatoxin, anatoxine), anafylactogeen (anaphylactogen, anatoxin, anatoxine). (various references)

Finnish		anatoksiini (anaphylactogen, anatoxin, anatoxine). (various references)

French		toxoïde, anatoxine. (various references)

German		Toxoid (anaphylactogen, anatoxin, anatoxine), Anatoxin (anaphylactogen, anatoxin, anatoxine), Anaphylaktogen (anaphylactogen, anatoxin, anatoxine), anaphylaktisches Antigen (anaphylactogen, anatoxin, anatoxine). (various references)

Greek		αναφυλακτογόνα (anaphylactogen, anatoxin, anatoxine), ανατοξίνη (anaphylactogen, anatoxin, anatoxine). (various references)

Italian		tossoide (anaphylactogen, anatoxin, anatoxine), antigene (antigen), anatossina (anaphylactogen, anatoxin, anatoxine), anafilattogeno (anaphylactogen, anatoxin, anatoxine), anafilattico (anaphylactic). (various references)

Pig Latin		oxoidtay

Portuguese		anatoxina (anaphylactogen, anatoxin, anatoxine). (various references)

Spanish		anatoxina (anatoxin). (various references)

Swedish		toxoid (anaphylactogen, anatoxin, anatoxine), anatoxin (anaphylactogen, anatoxin, anatoxine). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "toxoid": toxoids. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Words rhyming with "toxoid" (pronounced 'Tox"oid'): Ascidiozooid, Basaltoid, Basihyoid, Dactylozooid, geniohyoid, lymphoid, Maioid, Mandibulohyoid, Mylohyoid, Myoid, Neanderthaloid, Omohyoid, Petrohyoid, Pyoid, Quartzoid, Spermatozooid, Spiralozooid, Sternohyoid, Stylohyoid, Suprahyoid, Xiphoid, Zincoid. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "d-i-o-o-t-x"
	-1 letter: ootid.
	-2 letters: doit, oxid.
	-3 letters: dit, dot, oot, oxo, tod, too.
	-4 letters: do, id, it, od, ox, ti, to, xi.
	Words containing the letters "d-i-o-o-t-x"
	+1 letter: toxoids.
	+2 letters: protoxid.
	+3 letters: endotoxic, endotoxin, exodontia, oxidation, protoxids.
	+4 letters: endotoxins, exodontias, exodontist, oxidations.
	+5 letters: deoxidation, epoxidation, exodontists, orthodoxies, reoxidation, sextodecimo.
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