Ichthyotoxicology

Quick meaning: Ichthyotoxicology is a noun meaning (rare) The study of toxins found in fish; the toxicology of fish.

Meaning

(rare) The study of toxins found in fish; the toxicology of fish.

Example Sentences

“Last scene in From Russia with Love, one of the great moments in ichthyotoxicology. British agent double-oh-seven utterly helpless, paralyzed and unconscious after a minute wound from a hidden knife.”

One of the earliest reports on experimental ichthyotoxicology is by an unknown Japanese investigator and appeared in 1825 in the publication Toyen Shosetsu, in which the author related how he fed poisonous puffers to cats and dogs.

Fish were sampled at the shallow part of the Kerch Strait, where the shipwreck brought to ecological emergency in 2007. There were used ichthyotoxicology, biochemistry and immunochemistry methods for the research of fish populations

Therefore it was just the ichthyotoxicology to which the attention was focused in the framework of the first phase of aquatic toxicology development in Czechoslovakia. Recently the content of mercury is being evaluated in the other components of aquatic ecosystem.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include ichthyotoxicity, ichthyotoxin, ichthyotoxism, ichthyology, ichthyootoxin, ichthyosarcotoxism.

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