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MYCOTOXINS

Specialty Definition: MYCOTOXINS

DomainDefinition

Agriculture

Toxic substances produced by fungi or molds on agricultural crops that may cause sickness in animals or humans that eat feed or food made from contaminated crops. There are between 300 and 400 known mycotoxins, but of most concern, based on toxicity and occurrence, are aflatoxin, vomitoxin, zearalenone, funonisin, T-2 toxin, and T-2-like toxins (trichothecenes). GIPSA currently measures for aflatoxin in all exports shipments of corn, and measures for aflatoxin and vomitoxin on a voluntary basis in domestic shipments. (references)

Medicine

Toxins derived from bacteria or fungi. Source: European Union. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Crosswords: MYCOTOXINS

Specialty definitions using "MYCOTOXINS": Aflatoxins, AgrochemicalsMycotoxicosis. (references)

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Commercial Usage: MYCOTOXINS

DomainTitle

Books

  • Identification of selected trichothecenes, aflatoxins, and related mycotoxins (reference)

  • The Metabolism of aflatoxins and other mycotoxins (reference)

  • Mycotoxins in Plant in Plant Disease: Under the Aegis of Cost Action 835 ""Agri-Culturally Important Toxigenic Fungi 1998-2003"", Eu Project, Qlk1-Ct-1999-01380, and Ispp "" Fusarium (reference)

  • Mycotoxins in Grain: Compounds Other Than Aflatoxin (reference)

  • Laboratory Decontamination and Destruction of Carcinogens in Laboratory Wastes: Some Mycotoxins (Iarc Scientific Publications, No. 113) (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: MYCOTOXINS

"MYCOTOXINS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "MYCOTOXINS" is used about 15 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (plural)100%1590,616

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: MYCOTOXINS

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

mycotoxins

45

fungal mycotoxins

7

mycotoxins off washing

3

economic effects mycotoxins

3

aflatoxin mycotoxins shrimp

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: MYCOTOXINS

Language Translations for "MYCOTOXINS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Dutch

  

mycotoxinen. (various references)

   

French

  

mycotoxines. (various references)

   

German

  

Mykotoxine. (various references)

   

Italian

  

micotossine. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ycotoxinsmay.(various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: MYCOTOXINS

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-i-m-n-o-o-s-t-x-y"

-1 letter: mycotoxin, oxytocins.

-2 letters: myotonic, oxytocin.

-3 letters: isonomy, motions, myotics, osmotic, tycoons.

-4 letters: comity, contos, cytons, inmost, monist, motion, myosin, myotic, mystic, nostoc, oocyst, ostomy, simony, simoon, sitcom, snooty, syncom, tocsin, tonics, toxics, toxins, toyons, tycoon, xystoi.

-5 letters: cions, coins, comix, conto, coons, coots, cyton, icons, mincy, mints, minty, misty, moist, monos, moons, moony, moots, noisy.

 Words containing the letters "c-i-m-n-o-o-s-t-x-y"
 

+4 letters: cytotaxonomies.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Crosswords
2. Usage: Commercial
3. Usage Frequency
4. Expressions: Internet
5. Translations: Modern
6. Anagrams
7. Bibliography


  

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