English

anatoxin

From ana- + toxin.

Formed from ana- + toxin

Proto-Hellenic *aná ‘up, upon’

Ancient Greek ἀνά ‘on, up, above, throughout’

English ana-

Latin toxicum ‘a poison used on the tips of arrows’

English toxin

Today it means

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

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