What's the difference between cyanide and poison?

Cyanide


Definition:

  • (n.) A compound formed by the union of cyanogen with an element or radical.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Uptake could be supported either by substrate oxidation or by adenosine 5'-triphosphate (ATP), and was inhibited in the former case by antimycin or cyanide, in the latter case by oligomycin, and in both cases by 2,4-dinitrophenol.
  • (2) The rhodamine 123-induced growth inhibition was partially reversed by treating the dye-pre-exposed infected erythrocytes with the proton ionophore carbonyl-cyanide m-chlorophenylhydrazone, which dissipates transmembrane proton gradients.
  • (3) These results are in marked contrast to our results with stroma-free methemoglobin solutions (SFMS) which showed SFMS to be a highly effective antidote against four times the LD90 when administered 30 seconds after an intravenous injection of cyanide.
  • (4) A sharp decrease in oxygen uptake occurred in Neurospora crassa cells that were transferred from 30 degrees C to 45 degrees C, and the respiration that resumed later at 45 degrees C was cyanide-insensitive.
  • (5) R2 values for cyanide intake (independent variable) on serum protein (dependent variable) increased from day 30 to 90 of the trial.
  • (6) The cattle filarial parasite Setaria digitata, a facultative anaerobe which is reported to be cyanide insensitive, lacks cytochromes and presents many unique characters.
  • (7) The electronic structure of the low-spin ferric iron in cyanide complex appears to be modulated by halide binding to a protonated amino acid in the distal heme cavity.
  • (8) In the present work we report that 1) the catalytic center or the essential domains of dicarboxylyl-CoA synthetase are located at the cytosolic aspect of the endoplasmic reticulum membrane; 2) dicarboxylyl-CoA oxidase is optimally active on dodecanedioyl-CoA and is a peroxisomal enzyme; 3) cyanide-insensitive dodecanedioyl-CoA oxidation (NADH production) is catalyzed by rat liver homogenates.
  • (9) This allowed hydrogen cyanide gas to enter the thoracic cavity and diffuse into the blood probably causing the high blood-cyanide level.
  • (10) Neither cytochrome a nor cytochrome c appears to be an obligatory intermediate in cyanide-sensitive nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide oxidation in B. subtilis.
  • (11) The pyruvate dehydrogenase multienzyme complex from bovine kidney and heart is inactivated by treatment with pyridoxal 5'-phosphate and sodium cyanide or sodium borohydride.
  • (12) Fish stocks have been decimated by methods that include cyanide poisoning.
  • (13) The synthesis of aminolaevulate by freeze-dried particles decreased more than that of aminoacetone in the absence of added pyridoxal phosphate, in the presence of cyanide and of tris buffer, and after preincubation of the erythrocyte particles.
  • (14) The use of both mPMS and azide also eliminated the production of NBT monoformazan which occurred with PMS and cyanide.
  • (15) A similar plot for amygdalin was curvilinear, with the rate of cyanide release increasing with time.
  • (16) The superoxide dismutase was a cyanide-insensitive protein of approximately 40,000 molecular weight that migrated electrophoretically on acrylamide gels as a single band of activity.
  • (17) Glycidonitrile, an acrylonitrile metabolite, proved more potent in this respect than the parent acrylonitrile or its end metabolite, cyanide anion.
  • (18) Studies on the metabolism of nicotine by rabbit liver microsomal fractions in the presence of 0.01 M sodium cyanide have led to the characterization of two isomeric cyanonicotine compounds.
  • (19) alpha; this also led to restoration of the cyanide or azide insensitivity and the glucose-ferricyanide oxidoreductase activity in the respiratory chain without affecting other respiratory activities such as glucose and sorbitol oxidases.
  • (20) Release was abrogated by omission of myeloperoxidase or H2O2, heating of MPO, or addition of azide, cyanide, or catalase.

Poison


Definition:

  • (n.) Any agent which, when introduced into the animal organism, is capable of producing a morbid, noxious, or deadly effect upon it; as, morphine is a deadly poison; the poison of pestilential diseases.
  • (n.) That which taints or destroys moral purity or health; as, the poison of evil example; the poison of sin.
  • (n.) To put poison upon or into; to infect with poison; as, to poison an arrow; to poison food or drink.
  • (n.) To injure or kill by poison; to administer poison to.
  • (n.) To taint; to corrupt; to vitiate; as, vice poisons happiness; slander poisoned his mind.
  • (v. i.) To act as, or convey, a poison.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Resistance to antibiotics have been detected in food poisoning bacteria, namely Salmonella typhimurium, Staphylococcus aureus and Clostridium perfringens.
  • (2) It can induce acute cholinesterase poisoning, which is rapidly reversible on discontinuation of exposure.
  • (3) There is a disparity between the number of reported cases of poisoning and the number of chemical analyses performed for the identification and quantitative determination of a particular poison.
  • (4) A case is presented of deliberate chewing of the flowers of henbane (Hyoscyamus niger) in the hope of producing euphoria, and an account is given of the poisoning so produced.
  • (5) "Our black, Muslim and Jewish citizens will sleep much less easily now the BBC has legitimised the BNP by treating its racist poison as the views of just another mainstream political party when it is so uniquely evil and dangerous."
  • (6) Extrapyramidal syndromes after ischemic anoxia are rare, when compared to their relative frequency after carbon monoxide poisoning.
  • (7) Concern about the safety of the patient and dental personnel does exist, however, due to the possibilities of mercury poisoning.
  • (8) Excess levels of selenium (2.5 and 5 ppm) in the vitamin E-deficient diet had little or no effect on spleen size or hematocrit of rats not receiving lead, but partially prevented the splenomegaly and anemia of red cells from either non-poisoned or lead-oisoned vitamin E-deficient rats, but not as effectively as vitamin E. These results show that vitamin E status of rats is more important that selenium status in determining response to toxic levels of lead.
  • (9) Toxicity has been reported in the fetus of a woman ingesting a huge overdose of digitoxin; the same result would be anticipated with digoxin poisoning.
  • (10) Three esterase inhibitors, phenylmethylsulfonyl fluoride, bis-(p-nitrophenyl)-phosphate, and diisopropylfluorophosphate, had no effect on the antidote effectiveness of N-acetylcysteine, although each provided partial protection against acetaminophen poisoning.
  • (11) The deaths were due to: hanging (41 cases), poisoning (17 cases), leaping from a height (7 cases), and others (11 cases including one case of self shooting).
  • (12) In vivo the administration of captopril prevented the toxic effects of mercury poisoning on membrane permeability, oxidative phosphorylation and Ca++ homeostasis.
  • (13) Large doses of dsFab are efficacious in the treatment of dysrhythmias in this canine model of N oleander cardiac glycoside poisoning.
  • (14) A recent report indicated that an arrow poison used by the native Indians of Rondonia, Brazil, to kill small animals was associated with profuse bleeding.
  • (15) When Hayley Cropper swallows poison on Coronation Street on Monday night, taking her own life to escape inoperable pancreatic cancer, with her beloved husband, Roy, in pieces at her bedside, it will be the end of a character who, thanks to Hesmondhalgh's performance, has captivated and challenged British TV viewers for 16 years.
  • (16) Zelaya's food comes separately and is prepared by his daughter because he fears being poisoned.
  • (17) Characteristics of the poisoning include a delay between exposure and onset of symptoms; early systemic toxicity with congestive changes in the lungs and oliguric renal failure; prominent cerebellar and Parkinsonian neurologic symptoms as well as seizures and coma in severe cases; and psychiatric disturbances that can last from months to years.
  • (18) A method of poisoning cats with thallium is described.
  • (19) They were given individually to guinea pigs prior to poisoning with 2 x LD50 soman to test their efficacy against organophosphorus-induced convulsions, brain damage, and lethality.
  • (20) This incident prompted the poison center to evaluate our emergency response capabilities.