Associations to the word «Botulinum»

Wiktionary

BOTULINUM, noun. An anaerobic soil bacterium, Clostridium botulinum, that secretes the toxin botulin
BOTULINUM TOXIN, noun. A neurotoxic protein produced by the bacterium Clostridium botulinum

Dictionary definition

BOTULINUM, noun. Anaerobic bacterium producing botulin the toxin that causes botulism.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope