How to Use tetrodotoxin in a Sentence

tetrodotoxin

noun

• Too much tetrodotoxin from a puffer fish can kill a person.
  — Martin Finucane, BostonGlobe.com, 12 June 2019
• The toadlets secrete a poison called tetrodotoxin, which is the same poison found in fugo fish, Goutte said.
  — Megan Marples, CNN, 28 Apr. 2021
• In fact, a single pufferfish has enough tetrodotoxin to take out 1,200 humans.
  — Manasee Wagh, Popular Mechanics, 19 Jan. 2023
• Search [fugu poison] to find that the poison is tetrodotoxin, aka TTX or tetrodox, and is found primarily in the liver of the puffer fish.
  — Ken Denmead, WIRED, 9 Nov. 2011
• But the fish’s skin, intestines, ovaries, and liver contain the poison tetrodotoxin, which is 1,200 times deadlier than cyanide.
  — Joseph Hincks, Time, 16 Jan. 2018
• In the most delicious species, the innards are suffused with the neurotoxin called tetrodotoxin (TTX).
  — New York Times, 4 Dec. 2020
• But tetrodotoxin in the right amounts can relieve pain by blocking the sodium channels that conduct pain messages, the hospital said in a statement.
  — Martin Finucane, BostonGlobe.com, 12 June 2019
• The newts produce a chemical in their skin called tetrodotoxin, or TTX for short, that's made by other poisonous animals like pufferfish.
  — Carl Zimmer, Discover Magazine, 21 June 2011
• Steiner hypothesized in a 1995 research paper that the dolphins were consuming minute amounts of tetrodotoxin to get high.
  — National Geographic, 24 Feb. 2016
• While the worms do not appear to secrete enough of the toxin through the skin to be considered dangerous, Murphy says to exercise caution, as tetrodotoxin is very dangerous.
  — Allen Kim, CNN, 23 Nov. 2020
• Last year's posts on how dolphins might not be getting high on tetrodotoxin and my open letter to Discovery Channel for their terrible Megalodon fauxmentary stayed in the top ten this year.
  — Christie Wilcox, Discover Magazine, 31 Dec. 2014
• The worms produce tetrodotoxin, the same deadly neurotoxin produced by pufferfish, according to a study from Utah State University.
  — Allen Kim, CNN, 23 Nov. 2020
• Their venom contains tetrodotoxin, the same potent neurotoxin carried by the deadly pufferfish.
  — Steven Hill, Field & Stream, 20 Mar. 2023
• Their saliva contains the potent nerve toxin tetrodotoxin, the same compound that makes California newts, harlequin frogs, and fugu pufferfish liver so deadly.
  — Eric Scigliano, National Geographic, 15 Oct. 2019
• The tetrodotoxin is up to 1,200 times more poisonous than that of cyanide, and can cause deadening of the tongue and lips, dizziness, vomiting, arrhythmia, difficulty breathing, muscle paralysis and, if left untreated, death.
  — Daniel Jameson, CNT, 10 July 2017
• The tetrodotoxin is up to 1,200 times more poisonous than that of cyanide, and can cause deadening of the tongue and lips, dizziness, vomiting, arrhythmia, difficulty breathing, muscle paralysis, and, if left untreated, death.
  — Daniel Jameson, Condé Nast Traveler, 19 Sep. 2019
• Pufferfishes, for example, get their tetrodotoxin from a marine bacterium.
  — National Geographic, 7 Jan. 2020
• Hammerhead worms produce tetrodotoxin, the same deadly neurotoxin produced by pufferfish.
  — Aj Willingham, CNN, 30 Dec. 2020
• Some populations of this common amphibian are covered in a deadly neurotoxin—a compound called tetrodotoxin (TTX) that causes paralysis and is also found in most species of pufferfish as well as the notorious blue-ringed octopus.
  — Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Apr. 2020

Last Updated: 22 Oct 2024