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hypnotoxins

hypnotoxins is the plural of hypnotoxin.

Meaning of hypnotoxin

Noun

hypnotoxin (plural hypnotoxins)

  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.1950 April 3, Robert Coughlan, “Sleep, and How to Get More of It”, in LIFE, volume 28, number 14, page 126
  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.1910, Otto Charles Glaser, The Nematocysts of Eolids, page 136

Questions about hypnotoxins

What is hypnotoxins the plural of?
Hypnotoxins is the plural of hypnotoxin.

Words near hypnotoxins in the dictionary

  1. hypnotizes
  2. hypnotizing
  3. hypnotizingly
  4. hypnotoid
  5. hypnotoxin
  6. hypnotoxins
  7. hypnozoicidal
  8. hypnozoite
  9. hypnozoites
  10. hypnozoiticidal
  11. hypnozoitocidal

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