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  • Though it had pervaded every aspect of the evening like a simmering toxin, Andy's death was still too huge to grasp—though the strange thing too was how inevitable it seemed in hindsight, how weirdly predictable, almost as if he'd suffered from some fatal inborn defect.†   (source)
  • His migraine was not helped by the pungent cigar feeding toxins into his system.†   (source)
  • I try to be respectful of my body and not put a whole lot of toxins into it.†   (source)
  • Everything in the world, no matter how apparently benign, was potentially dangerous, bulging with toxins that could escape and infect you when you least expected it.†   (source)
  • He never overworried about any such problems, but what if Kathy had been right, that toxins in New Orleans had found their way into his body?†   (source)
  • E. coli 0157:H7, on the other hand, can release a powerful toxin called a "verotoxin" or a "Shiga toxin" — that attacks the lining of the intestine.†   (source)
  • Side effect of some demon toxins.†   (source)
  • I laid in bed, sweating out toxins, the last of the E and crank, aching from the inside out.†   (source)
  • Some will die now, others will die later as the various toxins take their toll.†   (source)
  • Actually, the bacteria release toxins that destroy skin and muscle rather than eating them.†   (source)
  • Maybe it was toxins in all the nopals and loquats he ate, or something in the water they siphoned off a cistern, but he started to grow and grow.†   (source)
  • Could In traditional contempt of any treaty, the U.S.S.R. had employed thousands of scientists to develop biological weapons, even after signing the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention in 1972.†   (source)
  • So many toxins have been spewed into the atmosphere as a result of our industrial greed that the climate of our planet is changing at an alarming rate.†   (source)
  • Yersinia pestis—Bubonic plague, Black death, pest—is an overwhelming infection by bacteria that produce potent toxins.†   (source)
  • In the unlikely event that this should fail, a doomsday button follows the sedative with a lethal dose of nerve toxin that kills in three to five seconds.†   (source)
  • Something attacked his nervous system like a virulent toxin.†   (source)
  • Even if it is a spider bite, the problem is usually the infection rather than the toxin.†   (source)
  • Like typhoid, one can harbor for a lifetime the toxin of guilt.†   (source)
  • Our consultant does guide us each day The masseur rubs our toxins away.†   (source)
  • toxins leaked into the groundwater
  • The Shiga toxins can cause seizures, neurological damage, and strokes.†   (source)
  • A sign said CAUTION BIOGENIC TOXINS A4 PRECAUTIONS REQUIRED.†   (source)
  • They cut HeLa cells apart and exposed them to endless toxins, radiation, and infections.†   (source)
  • You blow off toxins through your lungs, too.†   (source)
  • If I don't exercise, I can feel myself getting a little crazy from the toxins in my brain."†   (source)
  • My main effort now is to be aware of toxins and try to shed them as regularly as possible.†   (source)
  • I think of my mother, sweeping up deadly toxins; the way they used to use up old women, in Russia, sweeping dirt.†   (source)
  • This instinct probably developed to protect the developing fetus against even the mild toxins found in foods like broccoli.†   (source)
  • Demon toxins?†   (source)
  • It will be a shore fish, a species too paltry and tasteless to have been coveted and sold and exterminated, or else a bottom-feeder pimply with toxins, but Snowman couldn't care less, he'll eat anything.†   (source)
  • Many plant toxins (poisons) are bitter.†   (source)
  • But Henrietta's body had become so contaminated with toxins normally flushed from the system in urine, her cells died immediately in culture.†   (source)
  • In addition to E. coli 0157:H7, approximately sixty to one hundred other mutant E. coli organisms now produce Shiga toxins.†   (source)
  • The official cause of Henrietta's death was terminal uremia: blood poisoning from the buildup of toxins normally flushed out of the body in urine.†   (source)
  • Indeed the use of antibiotics may make such illnesses worse by killing off the pathogen and prompting a sudden release of its Shiga toxins.†   (source)
  • She's responsible for plagues, sickness, and catastrophes; she's immune to fire, radiation, toxins, corrosives, disease, and aging.†   (source)
  • I was getting thinner, but then you store the toxins in your muscles and organs and it's actually worse."†   (source)
  • A virus that carries the gene to produce Shiga toxins is now infecting previously harmless strains of E. coli.†   (source)
  • He says he's shedding toxins."†   (source)
  • He was diagnosed as having a kidney infection, one that he believes was facilitated by residual tissue damage from the Shiga toxins.†   (source)
  • Doctors frantically tried to save Alex's life, drilling holes in his skull to relieve pressure, inserting tubes in his chest to keep him breathing, as the Shiga toxins destroyed internal organs.†   (source)
  • In about 4 percent of reported E. coli 0157:H7 cases, the Shiga toxins enter the bloodstream, causing hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS), which can lead to kidney failure, anemia, internal bleeding, and the destruction of vital organs.†   (source)
  • It was recognized that this was a relatively minor achievement compared to other toxins that had been devised in recent years.†   (source)
  • Cold War: Both the United States and the Soviet Union bioweapons programs reach new heights, exploring the use of hundreds of bacteria, viruses, and biological toxins.†   (source)
  • Yet he persisted, patiently elucidating the coats of the cell wall that caused a reaction in host tissue and helping to discover the half-dozen toxins secreted by the bacteria to break down tissue, spread infection, and destroy red cells.†   (source)
  • "Staph" is short for "staphylococcal," and that strain of bacteria produces toxins similar to those in food poisoning.†   (source)
  • And at that exact instant—as he said the last words—Sophie saw the fearful headache attack Hoss with prodigious speed, like a stroke of lightning that had found a conduit through the gravel merchant's letter down to that crypt or labyrinth where migraine sets its fiery toxins loose beneath the cranium.†   (source)
  • And in many alkaloid-producing species, moreover, the toxin is strictly localized within the plant.†   (source)
  • Digestibility, efficient use of nutrients, toxin shedding.†   (source)
  • But in fact, there isn't a toxin in the world—"†   (source)
  • The toxin does the deed insidiously, indirectly, by inhibiting an enzyme essential to glycoprotein metabolism.†   (source)
  • "The problem," says Professor Bryant, "is that if you're lean and hungry to begin with, you're obviously not going to have any glucose and protein to spare; so there's no way to flush the toxin from your system.†   (source)
  • In 1972, more than one hundred nations sign the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention, banning production of biological weapons.†   (source)
  • A classic was the paper by Tendron and five others entitled "Researches into a Toxin Which Rapidly Uncouples Oxidative Phosphory-lation Through Cutaneous Absorption."†   (source)
  • Could a single toxin initiate it?†   (source)
  • That's where the toxins come from that make him so tipsy.†   (source)
  • She coughed almost incessantly and had bandages on all her fingers, the result of open sores from the toxins in her body.†   (source)
  • When Tubbs peeped into his laboratory he found a humorless young man going about his tests of hemolytic toxins with no apparent flair for the Real Big Thing in Science, which was co-operation and being efficient.†   (source)
  • "We're recovered patients," he had said, "rid of fever and toxins, practically ripe for the flatlands.†   (source)
  • Her organism seemed to be so inundated by toxins that she was ravaged by numerous illnesses, sometimes alternately, sometimes all at once.†   (source)
  • That comes from soluble toxins released by the bacteria; they have an intoxicating effect on the central nervous system, you see—which gives you those flushed cheeks.†   (source)
  • This was a prelude to his cigar, a Maria Mancini, a very tasty brand from Bremen—we shall come to speak about that again—whose spicy toxins blended so satisfyingly with those of his coffee.†   (source)
  • Meanwhile the soluble toxins from the bacteria had long since intoxicated the nerve centers: the organism was already feverish, and with heaving bosom, so to speak, it reeled toward its disintegration.†   (source)
  • All the rest, whether people or objects, lay in a blur of fog—a fog that was engendered in Hans Castorp's own brain and that Director Behrens and Dr. Krokowski would doubtless have declared to be the product of soluble toxins.†   (source)
  • …to it; about Hans Castorp's own modest, but chronic case, about how the bacillus irritated the cells of the tissue in the bronchi and air sacs of the lungs, about the formation of tubercles and the production of soluble intoxicating toxins, the deterioration of the cells and the process of caseation, which if it continued to petrify into chalky scar tissue meant a beneficial arrest of the disease, but if it went on to build ever-larger soft foci, created cavities that ate away…†   (source)
  • With the ongoing series of lectures as a basis, the conversation could then have moved from love as a force conducive to illness, to the nonphysical nature of its indications, to "old" and "new" areas, to soluble toxins and love potions, to light piercing the dark subconscious, to the blessings of psychoanalysis and the transference of symptoms—but then what do we know, since for us this is all merely guesswork, a hypothetical answer to the question about the subject of the chats…†   (source)
  • …which, as a civilian, Hans Castorp had begun to feel a responsibility, even though down in the flatlands he had never noticed such questions, probably never would have noticed them, but certainly did here, where one looked down on the world and its creatures from the contemplative retreat of five thousand feet and thought one's thoughts, even if they were probably the result of enhanced activity of the body, which was caused by soluble toxins and made your face burn with a dry flush.†   (source)
  • Researchers had been able to isolate and concentrate the toxins from several such microorganisms and were amazed to find that, if injected into an animal's bloodstream, even tiny doses of such materials, which could be classified as simple proteins, produced the most acute toxic effects, leading to rapid demise.†   (source)
  • Here he made his first investigation of toxin-anti-toxin reactions.†   (source)
  • When he had obtained a satisfactory toxin, Martin began his effort to find an antitoxin.†   (source)
  • He had isolated twenty strains of staphylococcus germs and he was testing them to discover which of them was most active in producing a hemolytic, a blood-disintegrating toxin, so that he might produce an antitoxin.†   (source)
  • In narrator by the access of years and in consequence of the use of narcotic toxin: in listener by the access of years and in consequence of the action of distraction upon vicarious experiences.†   (source)
  • 15 p.m. on the afternoon of 27 June 1886 a new boater straw hat, extra smart (after having, though not in consequence of having, purchased at the hour and in the place aforesaid, the toxin aforesaid), at the general drapery store of James Cullen, 4 Main street, Ennis.†   (source)
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