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anatoxin

noun

Etymology

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

  1. derived from toxicum
  2. prefixed as anatoxin — “ana + toxin”

Definitions

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

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

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for anatoxin. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA