anatoxin

English

Etymology 1

ana- +‎ toxin

Noun

anatoxin (countable and uncountable, plural anatoxins)

A bacterial toxin (usually an exotoxin) whose toxicity has been weakened or suppressed.

Synonyms

(bacterial toxin): toxoid, anatoxine

Translations

toxoid

French: anatoxine (fr) f
German: Anatoxin n

Italian: anatoxina f
Portuguese: toxoide m, anatoxina (pt) f

Further reading

Toxoid on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Etymology 2

model of anatoxin-a

From Anabaena flos-aquae (now Dolichospermum flos-aquae), the species from which the neurotoxin was first isolated

Noun

anatoxin (countable and uncountable, plural anatoxins)

A powerful neurotoxin, one of many toxins produced by several species of cyanobacterium.

Usage notes

Anatoxins are only one of the half a dozen groups of toxins that cyanobacteria are capable of producing.

Synonyms

(toxin from cyanobacteria): very fast death factor, VFDF

Hypernyms

(toxin from cyanobacteria): cyanotoxin

Coordinate terms

(toxins produced by cyanobacteria): cylindrospermopsin, lyngbyatoxin, microcystin, nodularin, saxitoxin

Translations

neurotoxin produced by cyanobacteria

Chinese:
Mandarin: 變性毒素, 变性毒素 (biànxìng dúsù)
Finnish: anatoksiini
French: anatoxine (fr) f

Italian: anatoxina f
Portuguese: anatoxina (pt) f
Russian: анатокси́н (ru) m (anatoksín)

Further reading

Anatoxin-a on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anatoxins on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

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