How to Use neurotoxic in a Sentence

neurotoxic

adjective
Definition of neurotoxicnext
  • There are even species whose neurotoxic compounds get through our own blood-brain barrier, a feat that no wasp venom can yet achieve.
    — Christie Wilcox, Scientific American, 1 May 2017
  • The researchers also looked at changing levels of the neurotoxic heavy metal mercury in the whales’ bodies.
    — Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Apr. 2021
  • Lead is a neurotoxic metal that can erode brain cells after entering the body, health experts say.
    — Adrianna Rodriguez, USA TODAY, 7 Mar. 2022
  • Brown recluse spider venom includes a neurotoxic component, that is known to cause chills, fever or, in some rare cases, death.
    — Danielle Garrand, CBS News, 6 July 2018
  • Depending on where a Mojave lives, its venom can be mainly neurotoxic with overtones of hemotoxin, or vice-versa, or a more or less equal mix of the two.
    — David E. Petzal, Field & Stream, 30 June 2020
  • The critter, which lives in underwater caves and looks like an inch-long centipede, sports tiny needle-like front claws that can inject neurotoxic venom.
    — Corryn Wetzel, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Oct. 2020
  • The neurotoxic venom of an eastern brown can kill a human being within 15 minutes if not treated with antivenin.
    — National Geographic, 3 Jan. 2017
  • That's good news, considering kiddie staples such as macaroni and cheese showed up in the Better Babies list of most neurotoxic foods.
    — CNN, 21 Oct. 2019
  • Methylmercury is a neurotoxic compound of mercury and carbon that bioaccumulates in the marine food chain.
    — Gia Mora, Treehugger, 8 Mar. 2023
  • Speaking of leaded gas, which is famously neurotoxic, what is the invention in the book that has had overall the most negative impact on society?
    — Emily Matchar, Smithsonian, 16 Aug. 2017
  • The mutant product that results soon shatters into neurotoxic shards.
    — Natalie Angier, New York Times, 9 Jan. 2017
  • Jewel wasp venom is only one example of neurotoxic venom taken to the extreme.
    — Christie Wilcox, Scientific American, 1 May 2017
  • One species, the Emerald jewel wasp, converts its cockroach prey into living zombies by injecting a neurotoxic cocktail into its brain.
    — Adrian Woolfson, WSJ, 31 July 2022
  • Some elapids have hemotoxic properties, and some vipers have neurotoxic properties.
    — CNN, 29 Oct. 2022
  • Making of a zombie Jewel wasps are a beautiful if terrifying example of how neurotoxic venoms can do much more than paralyze.
    — Christie Wilcox, Scientific American, 1 May 2017
  • Krakauer’s argument was built around a scientific paper that details the neurotoxic elements and effects of a particular amino acid in the wild potato plant McCandless had been eating.
    — The Editors, Outside Online, 12 Feb. 2015
  • Other research on essential oils derived from cloves, pine, and cinnamon have found similar neurotoxic results in insects.
    — Philip Kiefer, Popular Science, 16 Mar. 2021
  • The tests were commissioned by Healthy Babies Bright Futures, which calls itself an alliance of scientists, nonprofit organizations and donors trying to reduce exposures to neurotoxic chemicals during the first months of life.
    — Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 17 Oct. 2019
  • The eyelash viper is venomous—a bite releases hemotoxic venom that compromises the cardiovascular and central nervous systems until neurotoxic paralysis takes over, at which point the viper will swallow its prey whole.
    — Daisy Hernandez, Popular Mechanics, 26 Jan. 2022
  • All those air pollutants, those neurotoxic substances have disappeared, today.
    — Alex Park, Houston Chronicle, 2 July 2018
  • Research in animals and humans confirms that MDMA produces no neurotoxic effects at the doses administered in clinical trials.
    — New York Times, 3 May 2021
  • Bright Cities program partners with local nonprofits and city governments to reduce a community’s exposures to neurotoxic chemicals by lowering the levels of these chemicals in the air, water, food, soil, and in everyday consumer products.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 22 Apr. 2021
  • Excessive exposure to essential nutrients can also be dangerous: High levels of manganese can be neurotoxic, and too much iron and copper increases the risk of cardiovascular disease.
    — WIRED, 21 Nov. 2022
  • Eagles are also poisoned by eating baited dead animals laced with a neurotoxic pesticide called carbofuran.
    — Lilly Price, baltimoresun.com, 28 Feb. 2022
  • In all three cases, inflammation disrupts immune cells in the brain called microglia, which ordinarily maintain healthy neural circuit function but when inflammation strikes, become neurotoxic.
    — Elizabeth Cooney, STAT, 23 July 2022
  • Cannabis advocates often argue that the drug can’t be as neurotoxic as studies suggest because otherwise Western countries would have seen population-wide increases in psychosis alongside rising marijuana use.
    — Alex Berenson, WSJ, 4 Jan. 2019
  • Lab studies on methylisothiazolinone indicate that the chemical may also be neurotoxic in vitro — or, carry potential to damage developing nervous systems.
    — Stephie Grob Plante, Vox, 3 July 2019
  • The administrator began reversing the proposal to ban the neurotoxic pesticide chlorpyrifos, going against all credible scientific advice.
    — Umair Irfan, Vox, 6 July 2018

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