Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A potent neurotoxin, C11H17N3O8, found in many pufferfishes and certain other animals, including some salamanders and crabs.
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- noun A
neurotoxin found inTetraodontiformes such aspufferfish .
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- noun a powerful neurotoxin found in the ovaries of pufferfish
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The chemical is called tetrodotoxin or TTX from the Fugu pufferfish.
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A highly-toxic substance called tetrodotoxin is found in a breed of puffer fish native to Haitian waters.
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A highly-toxic substance called tetrodotoxin is found in a breed of puffer fish native to Haitian waters.
Archive 2006-10-01 Staq Mavlen 2006
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Blowfish poison, called tetrodotoxin, is nearly 100 times more poisonous than potassium cyanide, according to the Ishikawa Health Service Association.
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The powder contains a poison known as tetrodotoxin, or TTX.
UncleBear 2008
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It took only a few moments for the tetrodotoxin to kick in.
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They fight him with the help of high-tech gizmos and near-superhuman feats: surviving car chases, leaping from a second-story window, dodging a syringe full of tetrodotoxin, “over a thousand times more lethal than cyanide.”
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Similarly, some garter snakes are known to store tetrodotoxin from ingested newts while birds in New Guinea appear to sequester poisons from insects.
Archive 2007-01-01 2007
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Some of the most poisonous substances known today are naturally produced chemicals including ricin from castor beans or tetrodotoxin from the puffer fish.
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Federal prosecutors allege that the man posed as a researcher to obtain tetrodotoxin, a lethal substance found in pufferfish that has no known antidote.
vendingmachine commented on the word tetrodotoxin
Tetrodotoxin is found in two marine creatures : the blue-ringed octopus and the pufferfish.
The poisonous part of the pufferfish is found in its ovaries. This poison is not destroyed by cooking although experts say, if the entrails are removed before cooking, the fish is usually harmless. Used in the Japanese delicacy fugu, puffer fish can only be cooked and prepared by specially trained and licensed chefs. Even so, from 1955 through 1975 there were more than 1,500 fatalities caused by eating improperly prepared fugu. (I haven't looked up any new fatality statistics yet.)
February 27, 2015