combining form arbitrarily repr. TOXIC or TOXIN, in recent scientific words, chiefly pathological. Toxidermic a. [Gr. δέρμα skin], pertaining to skin-disease produced by a poison: cf. toxicodermitis in TOXICO-. Toxiferous a. = toxophorous in TOXO-2. Toxignomic a. (Gr. γνώμη judgment, opinion], enabling one to diagnose the action of a toxin. ǁ Toxihæmia [Gr. αἶμα blood] = toxæmia: see TOX-1. Toxi-infectious, -infective adjs., involving or characterized by infection due to a toxin. ǁ Toxiphagus, pl. -phagi [Gr. -φάγος eating], one who eats poisons: cf. toxicophagous in TOXICO-. ǁ Toxiphobia [-PHOBIA], fear of being poisoned, as a form of insanity or monomania; hence Toxiphobiac, one affected with toxiphobia. Toxiphoric a. = toxophoric: see TOXO-2. Toxiresin, name of a poisonous substance obtained from digitalis by the action of acids.
1899. Allbutt’s Syst. Med., VIII. 587. A pilo-sebaceous folliculitis of … microbic or *toxidermic character.
1899. Syd. Soc. Lex., *Toxiferous, carrying or conveying poison.
1890. Billings, Med. Dict., *Toxihæmia, Toxæmia.
1907. Jrnl. Med. Research, Dec., 352. The statement of Dide, who asserts that there is a diminution in alexin in patients suffering from the *‘toxi-infectious’ forms of insanity.
1897. Allbutt’s Syst. Med., III. 749. Microbic agency which sets up *toxi-infective processes.
1875. H. C. Wood, Therap. (1879), 377. The *toxiphagi are asserted to be remarkably long-lived people.
1876. C. A. Cameron, in Dublin Jrnl. Med. Sc., Feb., 98. I propose to apply the term *toxiphobia to a species of monomania … those labouring under which believe that persistent attempts are being made to poison them. Of the sixty-three *toxiphobiacs, only two were obviously insane.
1902. G. M. Sternberg, in Science, 24 Oct., 665/1. The atom-groups which … Ehrlich calls the *‘toxiphoric side chain.’
1890. Billings, Med. Dict., *Toxiresin, a prodect of the action of acids upon digitoxin; a powerful cardiac poison.
1899. Syd. Soc. Lex., Toxiresin.
