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The quality or state of being toxic or poisonous; poisonousness.

Producing toxic products; as, toxicogenic germs or bacteria.

Of or pertaining to toxicology. -- Tox`i*co*log"ic*al*ly, adv.

One versed in toxicology; the writer of a treatise on poisons.

The science which treats of poisons, their effects, antidotes, and recignition; also, a discourse or treatise on the science.

Toxiphobia. A. S. Taylor.

Same as Toxoglossa.

A poisonous product formed by pathogenic bacteria, as a toxic proteid or poisonous ptomaine.

An insane or greatly exaggerated dread of poisons.

ous mammal from South America, having teeth bent like a bow. It is the type of the order Toxodonta.

ent pulp. They are supposed to be related both to the rodents and ungulates. Called also Toxodontia.

A division of marine gastropod mollusks in which the radula are converted into poison fangs. The cone shells (Conus), Pleurotoma, and Terebra, are examples. See Illust. of Cone, n., 4, Pleurotoma, and Terebra.

An altered form of a toxin, possessing little or no toxic power.

A lover of archery; one devoted to archery.

A genus of fishes comprising the archer fishes. See Archer fish.

An oxide containing three atoms of oxygen; as, sulphur trioxide, SO3; -- formerly called tritoxide.

A basic substance, C7H17NO2, formed from the growth of the typhoid bacillus on meat pulp. It induces in small animals lethargic conditions with liquid dejecta.

A ptomaine discovered by Vaughan in putrid cheese and other dairy products, and producing symptoms similar to cholera infantum. Chemically, it appears to be related to, or identical with, diazobenzol.

Same as Tyrotoxicon.

To remove from a box or boxes.