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toxic harmful or deadly toxic [′täk·sik] (medicine) Relating to a harmful effect by a poisonous substance on the human body by physical contact, ingestion, or inhalation. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| This is the toxic property of all Thackeray's writing. I contended that if the ether surrounding the earth was so toxic in one quarter that it produced dangerous symptoms, it was hardly likely that we three in the railway carriage should be entirely unaffected. Lord John Roxton was right when he thought that some specially toxic quality might lie in the bite of the horrible creatures which had attacked us. |
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