Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Producing poison or toxic substances.
- adjective Derived from or containing toxic matter.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Forming poison.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Physiol. & Med.) Producing toxic products.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective that produces
poison
Etymologies
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toxico- + -genic
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They concluded that toxicogenic theory fails all these criteria, with there being “no convincing evidence to support the fundamental postulate that IEI has a toxic aetiology” and that “the hypothesised biological processes and mechanisms are implausible”.8 Moreover, they also concluded that “psychogenic theory meets all of the criteria directly or indirectly”, being “characterised by a progressive research programme including double-blind, placebo-controlled provocation challenge studies”.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Professors and Intelligent Design: 2007
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