Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

shiga toxin

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.13 in modern English

Syllables: shi-ga -tox-in
IPA

21

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

4

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any of a family of related toxins with two major groups, Stx1 and Stx2, expressed by genes considered to be part of the genome of lambdoid prophages.

Etymology

Named after Japanese bacteriologist Kiyoshi Shiga, who first described the bacterial origin of dysentery caused by Shigella dysenteriae.

Inflected Forms

Shiga toxins (plural) shigatoxin (alternative)

Questions

What does shiga toxin mean?: Any of a family of related toxins with two major groups, Stx1 and Stx2, expressed by genes considered to be part of the genome of lambdoid prophages.
Where does shiga toxin come from?: Named after Japanese bacteriologist Kiyoshi Shiga, who first described the bacterial origin of dysentery caused by Shigella dysenteriae.

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