Definition of "antitoxins" [antitoxins]

• Plural form of antitoxin. (noun)

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• "Passive immunization means administering antibodies or antitoxins from another source to protect the recipient."
• "Research was ongoing into a wide array of ingredients: antibiotics, lipids, antitoxins, histamines, thiols, hormones, steroids and practically every antioxidant known to humankind."
• "A few years later, Ehrlich found that certain toxins, injected into animals, could generate “antitoxins,” which bound and inactivated poisons with extraordinary specificity these antitoxins would later be identified as antibodies."