toxico-, toxic-, toxi-, tox-, toxin-, -toxically, -toxaemia, -toxemia, -toxaemic, -toxemic, -toxical, -toxy, -toxis, -toxicosis, -toxism, -toxia, -toxin, -toxicity
(Greek: poison)
This Greek element originally meant "bow", then it became "arrow", then a "poisoned arrow" and finally "poison". In most cases, toxico- means poison, but in a few situations it refers to the original meaning of "arrow", as in toxophilite and toxophily [love of or fondness for archery]. and shouldn't be confused with toxophil, toxophile [having an affinity for a toxin or "poison"].
abstemious
1. Moderation in eating and drinking, sober, temperate; not self-indulgent.
2. Etymology: abs-, ab-, "from, away from" plus temetum, "intoxicating drink, mead, wine".
acarotoxic
A poison that kills mites.
acetyldigitoxin
Having the same actions and uses as digitoxin, but more rapid onset and shorter duration of action.
actinotoxemia
actinotoxin
A crude poison derived from alcoholic extracts of the tentacles of sea anemones.
adrenotoxin
aflatoxicosis
Poisoning caused by the consumption of substances or foods contaminated with aflatoxin (fungal toxin which is a powerful liver carcinogen).
aflatoxin
1. A fungal toxin which is a powerful liver carcinogen, found particularly in undeveloped and developing countries.
2. A group of closely related toxic (poisonous) metabolites (substance produced by physical and chemical processes) that are designated mycotoxins (poisonous compounds produced by certain fungi).
Aflatoxins are toxic and among the most carcinogenic substances known.
allotoxin
An obsolete term for antitoxin.
alopecia toxica
Loss of hair thought to be due to toxins of infectious disease.
anagotoxic
andromedotoxin
A poisonous crystalline substance found in various ericaceous plants; especially, the genus Andromeda [a genus of shrubs of which one dwarf herb-like species is native to Britain and others to North America].
angiotoxis
anthropotoxin
A poison believed to be exhaled from the lungs of human beings.
antiantitoxin
A cross reference of another word family that is related directly, or indirectly, with: "poison":
veno-;
viru-.
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