gonyautoxin

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What does gonyautoxin mean?

Any of a family of paralytic shellfish poisons used in the treatment of anal fissures

Where does gonyautoxin come from?

Blend of taxonomic name Gonyaulax + toxin, Gonyaulax being the genus name of dinoflagellate plankton.

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