SAXITOXIN


Meaning of SAXITOXIN in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ ˌsak-sə-ˈtäk-sən ]

noun

Etymology: saxi- (from New Latin Saxidomus giganteus, species of butter clam from which it is isolated) + toxin

Date: 1962

: a potent nonprotein neurotoxin C 10 H 17 N 7 O 4 ·2HCl that originates especially in dinoflagellates (genus Gonyaulax ) found in red tides and that sometimes occurs in and renders toxic normally edible mollusks which feed on them

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