Ichthyotoxin

Quick meaning: Ichthyotoxin is a noun meaning Any chemical compound that is toxic to fish.

Meaning

Any chemical compound that is toxic to fish.

More Meanings

1. Any toxin produced by fish.

Example Sentences

More recently, Ehrhardt (1971) drew attention to ichthyotoxins as a whole. Among fish alone there are more than 500 species that are dangerous to man.

While such a pretreatment increased the sensitivity ten to forty times, the damage to the gills induced by brief exposure to ichthyotoxin was reversible.

This dinoflagellate, apparently widely distributed in temperate coastal waters, produces ichthyotoxins that have killed net-pen farmed salmonids in Norway, Scotland, and Ireland (Smayda 2006).

Ciguatoxin (CTX) is the principal ichthyotoxin involved in a complex human food poisoning known as ciguatera, characterized mainly by neurological, gastrointestinal, and, in the most severe cases, cardiovascular disorders (6—10).

Word Forms

• ichthyotoxins

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include ichthyohemotoxin, ichthyootoxin, ichthyotoxism, ichthyohaemotoxin, ichthyotoxicology, ichthyotoxicity.

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