NEUROTOXIC

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does neurotoxic mean? 

• NEUROTOXIC (adjective)
  The adjective NEUROTOXIC has 1 sense:

1. poisonous to nerves or nerve cells

  Familiarity information: NEUROTOXIC used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NEUROTOXIC (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Poisonous to nerves or nerve cells

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Pertainym:

neurotoxin (any toxin that affects neural tissues)

Derivation:

neurotoxin (any toxin that affects neural tissues)

 Context examples 

It can be separated into a phospholipase A and crotapotin fragment; the latter consists of three different amino acid chains, potentiates the enzyme, and is specifically neurotoxic.

(Crotoxin, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

A potent carcinogen and neurotoxic compound.

(Azoxymethane, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

Lindane also has topical pediculicide and scabicide activities probably due to its neurotoxic effects.

(Lindane, NCI Thesaurus)

Rod photoreceptors, the light-sensing cells that die off first in retinitis pigmentosa, were precipitously lost along with a surge in the expression of neurotoxic inflammatory cytokines.

(Immune system can slow degenerative eye disease, National Institutes of Health)

The commercially available antidote is a polyvalent antivenom which, when injected into the bloodstream, is expected to neutralise neurotoxic (toxic to nerves) or cytotoxic (toxic to cells) venom.

(‘India needs region-specific snakebite antivenoms’, SciDev.Net)

This agent appears to be less nephrotoxic and neurotoxic compared to both cisplatin and carboplatin.

(Nedaplatin, NCI Thesaurus)

Kartik Sunagar, an author of the study and assistant professor, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, tells that the venom of spectacled cobra found in West Bengal is strongly neurotoxic while that of the same species in Arunachal Pradesh state is extremely cytotoxic.

(‘India needs region-specific snakebite antivenoms’, SciDev.Net)