ichthyohaemotoxin

A form of ichthyohemotoxin — Any poisonous substance found in the blood of fishes.

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Meanings

nounichthyohaemotoxin (plural ichthyohaemotoxins)

plural ichthyohaemotoxins

  1. alternativeAlternative form of ichthyohemotoxin.

    For some fish, the toxins are present in the blood; these are ichthyohaemotoxin.

    2012, Code of Practice for Fish and Fishery Products, page 237
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    Ichthyotoxin includes fishes, which produce a toxin that is generally confined in the gonads and ichthyohaemotoxin indicates fishes that have toxins within their blood.

    2008, Vazhiyil Venugopal, Marine Products for Healthcare, →ISBN, page 479

    Ichthyohaemotoxin is the toxin found in eel serum; it is also known as fish serum toxin.

    2017, Laith A. Jawad, Dangerous Fishes of the Eastern and Southern Arabian Peninsula, →ISBN
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APA

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