Neurotoxin

Definition: Neurotoxin

Neurotoxin

Noun

1. Any toxin that affects neural tissues.

Specialty Definitions: Neurotoxin

Domain	Definitions
Health	A substance that is poisonous to nerve tissue. (references)
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Specialty Definition: Neurotoxin

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

A neurotoxin is a toxin that acts specifically on nerve cells of the nervous system, typically by interacting with membrane proteins and especially ion channels. Many of the venoms and other toxins that organisms use in defense against vertebrates are neurotoxins. A common effect is paralysis, which typically onsets extremely rapidly. Examples of neurotoxins include tetrodotoxin and components of the venom in bees, scorpions and spiders.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Neurotoxin."

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Synonym: Neurotoxin

Synonym: neurolysin (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Neurotoxin

English words defined with "neurotoxin": kokoi venom ♦ saxitoxin. (references)

Specialty definitions using "neurotoxin": beta carboline, Botulinum Toxin Type A ♦ Charybdotoxin, Clostridium tetani ♦ Methylazoxymethanol Acetate ♦ p-Chloroamphetamine. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Neurotoxin

Domain	Title
Books	Botulinum Neurotoxin and Tetanus Toxin (reference) Mptp: A Neurotoxin Producing a Parkinsonian Syndrome (reference) (more book examples)
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Non-Fiction Usage: Neurotoxin

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		Only botulinum neurotoxin type A has been used in clinical studies at present. (references)
		A potent neurotoxin produced from Clostridium botulinum, an anaerobic, spore-forming bacterium. (references)
		In therapeutic applications, minute quantities of botulinum neurotoxin type A are injected directly into selected muscles. (references)
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Usage Frequency: Neurotoxin

"Neurotoxin" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Neurotoxin" is used about 4 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 Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	4	175,879

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Neurotoxin

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.

Expression	Frequency per Day
neurotoxin	6
botulinum neurotoxin	2
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Modern Translations: Neurotoxin

Language		Translations for "neurotoxin"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Chinese		神经�'� . (various references)

Danish		neurotoxin (nerve poison), neurotoksin (nervepoison), nervegift (nerve poison, nervepoison). (various references)

Dutch		neurotoxine (nervepoison), zenuwvergif (nervepoison). (various references)

French		neurotoxine (nerve poison, nervepoison), poison neurotique (nervepoison). (various references)

German		Neurotoxin (nerve poison, nervepoison), Nervengift (nerve poison, nervepoison). (various references)

Italian		neurotossina (nervepoison). (various references)

Pig Latin		eurotoxinnay
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Derivations & Misspellings: Neurotoxin

Derivations
	Words beginning with "neurotoxin": neurotoxins. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Neurotoxin" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: necrotoxic, necrotoxin, neurotoxic, neurotropic. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Neurotoxin

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "e-i-n-n-o-o-r-t-u-x"
	-2 letters: neutrino.
	-3 letters: intoner, neutron, reunion, routine, ternion.
	-4 letters: enroot, intern, intone, intron, inturn, ionone, neuron, norite, notion, orient, ronion, tenour, tinner, tonier, tonner, toxine, triune, turnon, uniter, unrent, unroot, untorn.
	-5 letters: ennui, inert, inner, inter, intro, inure, inurn, irone, niter, niton, nitre, nitro, nonet, noter, onion, oorie, ourie, outer, outre, oxter, renin, rouen, route, rutin, tenon, tenor, toner, tonne, toxin, trine, trone, tuner, union, unite, untie, urine, uteri, xenon.
	Words containing the letters "e-i-n-n-o-o-r-t-u-x"
	+1 letter: neurotoxins.
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