tetraodontoxin
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tetraodontoxin — a substitute name conforming to the correct generic name Tetraodon. But tetraodontoxin has never found acceptance and has been discarded … Dictionary of ichthyology
tetraodontoxin — variant of tetrodotoxin … Useful english dictionary
puffer — /puf euhr/, n. 1. a person or thing that puffs. 2. Also called blowfish, globefish. any of various fishes of the family Tetraodontidae, capable of inflating the body with water or air until it resembles a globe, the spines in the skin becoming… … Universalium
tetraodontiform — ▪ fish order Introduction any member of the order Tetraodontiformes, a group of primarily tropical marine fishes that evolved from the Perciformes (the typical advanced spiny rayed fishes) during the Eocene Period of the Cenozoic Era, about … Universalium
tetrodotoxin — A potent neurotoxin found in the liver and ovaries of the Japanese pufferfish, Sphoeroides rubripes, other species of pufferfish, and certain newts; produces axonal blocks of the preganglionic cholinergic fibers and the somatic motor nerves. T.… … Medical dictionary
