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neurotoxic
Able to produce chemically an adverse effect on the nervous system: such effects may be subdivided into two types.
- Central nervous system effects (including transient effects on mood or performance and pre-senile dementia such as Alzheimer's disease).
- Peripheral nervous system effects (such as the inhibitory effects of organophosphorus compounds on synaptic transmission).
- Sõnaliik: noun
- Valdkond/domeen: Biology; Chemistry
- Category: Toxicology
- Company: National Library of Medicine
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