hypnotoxin

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim 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. isim 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.”