cytotoxin
noun
cytotoxin is a noun meaning “Any substance having a specific toxic effect on certain cells” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled C-Y-T-O-T-O-X-I-N, and it appears about once in every 93 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of cytotoxin is cytotoxins.
What does cytotoxin mean?
noun
- 1
Any substance having a specific toxic effect on certain cells.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of cytotoxin
- cytotoxins plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is cytotoxin?
Cytotoxin appears about once in every 93 million words in written English, the 309,272nd most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Cytotoxin in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense substance having a toxic effect on cells:
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does cytotoxin come from?
From cyto- + toxin.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).