ichthyotoxin
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
30
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Any chemical compound that is toxic to fish.
Example Sentences
- "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)."
- "While such a pretreatment increased the sensitivity ten to forty times, the damage to the gills induced by brief exposure to ichthyotoxin was reversible."
- "The rate of the ichthyotoxic effect on immersed minnows within the temperature range of 10–30°C increases directly with the temperature (from 3 hours to 30 minutes), but the final titer of the ichthyotoxin is identical at both high and low temperatures."
- "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."
- "Ichthyotoxins are sufficiently widely present in the reef fish of tropical oceans, and with a sufficiently unpredictable occurrence, as to render the large-scale commercialization of snappers, groupers, jack, and other large, marketable fish a chancy business; in some iland groups, such as (it is claimed) Johnston and Phenix, very high percentages of species are toxic."
- "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)."
Etymology
From ichthyo- + toxin.
Word Breakdown
- Prefix: ichthyo