toxin

See also: Toxin

English

Etymology

From Latin toxicum, equivalent to toxi- +‎ -in.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈtɒksɪn/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈtɑksɪn/
• Homophone: tocsin
• Rhymes: -ɒksɪn

Noun

toxin (plural toxins)

1. A toxic or poisonous substance produced by the biological processes of biological organisms.

Derived terms

• toxinic

Related terms

• toxic

Usage notes

Toxin is often incorrectly used to describe various toxic substances in a body that need to be removed. The correct term to use in this case is toxicant.

Translations

a toxic or poisonous substance

• Catalan: toxina (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 毒素 (duk⁶ sou³)

  Mandarin: 毒素 (zh) (dúsù)

  Min Nan: 毒素 (to̍k-sò͘)

• Czech: toxin m
• Danish: giftstof n, toksin (da) n
• Esperanto: toksino
• Finnish: toksiini (fi), myrkky (fi)
• French: toxine (fr) f
• German: Toxin n
• Greek: τοξίνη (el) f (toxíni)
• Hungarian: méreg (hu)
• Ido: toxino (io)
• Irish: tocsain f
• Italian: tossina (it) f
• Japanese: 毒素 (どくそ, dokuso)
• Kazakh: уыт (wıt)

• Korean: 독소 (ko) (dokso) (毒素 (ko))
• Kurdish: toksîn (ku) f
• Latvian: toksīns m
• Malay: toksin
• Maori: tāoke
• Navajo: kʼaasdá
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: giftstoff n, toksin n

  Nynorsk: giftstoff n, toksin n

• Occitan: toxina (oc) f
• Persian: زهرابه‎ (fa) (zahrâbe)
• Polish: toksyna (pl) f
• Portuguese: toxina (pt) f
• Romanian: toxină (ro)
• Russian: токси́н (ru) m (toksín)
• Spanish: toxina (es) f
• Swedish: toxin (sv) n
• Vietnamese: toxin (vi), độc tố