Meanings
- uncountableAn anaerobic soil bacterium, Clostridium botulinum, that secretes the toxinbotulin.
- uncountableThe toxin of Clostridium botulinum.
Glycyrrhizin isn't horribly toxic like botulinum or VX, but it's definitely quite poisonous. Rats fed the equivalent of about two grams per day for an average human show irreversible damage to the heart and kidneys after less than a month.
2014, Theodore Gray, photography by Nick Mann, Molecules: The Elements and the Architecture of Everything, 2018 Paperback Edition, page 178
Synonyms & antonyms
nounanaerobic bacterium producing botulin the toxin that causes botulism
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Latinbotulus“sausage”
- Englishbotulinum
From Latin botulus (“sausage”) + -īnum.
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