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tox en · ADJ

Pronunciation

  • (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

Clippings.

Meanings

  1. (informal, not-comparable) Affected by toxin; intoxicated; toxicological.
    • crashing tox patient

tox en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

Clippings.

Meanings

  1. (abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, informal, uncountable) Clipping of toxicity.
    alt of toxicity
    • GI tox
  2. (abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, informal, uncountable) Clipping of toxicology.
    alt of toxicology
    • His tox screen came back positive.
    • “How are you going to have a conversation around the patient’s positive tox screen results?” asked Dr. Lidya H. Wlasiuk, who teaches addiction awareness and interventions here at Boston University School of Medicine. 2018 September 10, Jan Hoffman, “Most Doctors Are Ill-Equipped to Deal With the Opioid Epidemic. Few Medical Schools Teach Addiction.”, in The New York Times:
  3. (abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, informal, uncountable) Clipping of Botox
    alt of Botox

Deriveds

fox tox · detoxify