hypnotoxin

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A hypothetical waste product of the brain proposed by Henri Piéron that causes fatigue and is cleansed by sleep.
    — Yet, because of its apparent common sense, the hypnotoxin idea remained attractive until Dr. Kleitman's studies of the temperature cycle.
  2. A venom found in the nematocysts of some cnidarians that acts as a central nervous system depressant leading to inactivity, numbness, paralysis, and coma.
    — On the other hand, the evidence that there is present in nettles another poison, the hypnotoxin, responsible for the paralysis of punctured animals, seems well grounded.

词形变化

hypnotoxins plural
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