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Botox
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botox bótox
English
botulinum toxin
Alternative forms
en botox
Etymology
en botulinum toxin.
Pronunciation
en /ˈboʊtɑks/ GA
en /ˈbəʊtɒks/ RP
en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Botox.wav Southern England
en Bo tox
Proper noun
A toxic compound (generic name botulinum toxin type A) produced by the bacterium Clostridium botulinum species, that causes the paralysis of muscles, used in cosmetic surgery to conceal wrinkles and for muscle spasm relief and headache prevention.
en tox clipping
en w:The Eric Andre Show 2014 3 1 Eric Andre Eric Andre: You look phenomenal. What's your secret?Asa Akira Asa Akira: Botox.Eric Andre: Really?Asa Akira: Yeah. And I'm starving.
Derived terms
en Botox smile brotox
Translations
toxic compound
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 肉毒桿菌毒素 ròudúgānjūndúsù, cmn 肉毒桿菌素 ròudúgānjūnsù, cmn 肉毒毒素 ròudúdúsù
Dutch: nl botox f m
Finnish: fi botox
French: fr botox m
German: de Botox n
Greek: el μπότοξ n
Italian: it botox m
Marathi: mr बोटॉक्स
Polish: pl botoks m
Portuguese: pt botox m
Russian: ru бо́токс m, ru ботулотокси́н m
Spanish: es bótox m, es botox m
Turkish: tr botoks
Verb
en transitive intransitive To inject Botox.
en 2009-01-24 Richard Ouzounian A winning Bette w:Toronto Star http://www.thestar.com/Entertainment/Theatre/article/575731 The heavily Botoxed, stylishly black-clad, elegantly blinged women who organized this evening may not want to imitate Bette's style, but they certainly love her sass. https://web.archive.org/web/20090402012949/http://www.thestar.com:80/Entertainment/Theatre/article/575731 2 April 2009
en 2012 Kamini Patel The Morning After His thirty year younger wife, Monica, has apparently graduated with a magna cum laude honors degree from an Ivy League, but obviously lost it somewhere down the line when she visited her plastic surgeon; double D silicones and Botoxed face!
en 2015 Lisa Scottoline; Francesca Serritella https://books.google.com/books?id=5ce2CgAAQBAJ&pg=PT314&dq=%22botoxes%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiXyLf2t87KAhXMtoMKHZ5MDG4Q6AEINDAB#v=onepage&q=%22botoxes%22&f=false Truly Funny Stories, Volume 2 To be clear, I have no problem with anybody who Botoxes and fills.
weekend Henry Mance 2025-05-17 Lunch with the FT: Trinny Woodall Life & Arts 3 I probably Botox twice a year.
See also
en botulin