neurotoxin
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- noun
- /ˈnʊroʊˌtɑksɪn/
- Specialized
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neurotoxina
- Mercury, a potent neurotoxin emitted by many coal-fired power plants, can impair brain development in children and harm.
If you have too much neurotransmitter in your brain, it's a neurotoxin.
- If you have too much neurotransmitter in your brain, it's a neurotoxin.
- So like little things like we had to just did a podcast of clean air because people don't realize the amount of neurotoxins there are in an environment.
- Studies that have said, you know, fluoride is a neurotoxin or not a neurotoxin, but it it damages your neurons and your neurological processes.
- Tends to sequester or shuttle the conurine into the muscle so that it isn't converted into this neurotoxin that is pro depression.
- It's hard to measure that, but there's no place for this, this toxin, neurotoxin in our and the problem is it's fat soluble.
Examples
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The lethal agent is an excreted neurotoxin.
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The venom from the African black mamba is a potent neurotoxin.
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The neurotoxin can stop a bird's heart in seconds.
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Its bite contains a neurotoxin.
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As everyone knows by now, traces of the neurotoxin have been found in some plants and trees.
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Okay, so this guy's hands somehow release an acute neurotoxin... and it is painful.
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The effects of currently known neurotoxins include hypersalivation, weakness, restlessness, paralysis, tremor, dysphasia, and coma.
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The venom from the African black mamba is a potent neurotoxin that can cause paralysis in its prey.
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Doctors warn that certain marine creatures contain neurotoxins that can be deadly if consumed.
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Research shows that the neurotoxin affects the nervous system, leading to serious health issues.
Synonyms
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A very strong poison in pufferfish and some newts that blocks nerve signals
A poison that damages nerve cells and stops them working
A substance that makes nerve cells too active and damages them
A substance that destroys nerves to reduce severe pain
Antonyms
How Toxic
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word neurotoxin breaks into neuro- 'nerve' and toxin 'poison'. So a neurotoxin is a 'nerve poison', which helps explain why it is harmful to nerve tissue.