What's the difference between nontoxic and poisonous?

Nontoxic


Definition:

  • (a.) Not toxic.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A continuously protective, nontoxic, oral model of chronic treatment with primidone was developed in the rat.
  • (2) The primary focus of both nonpharmacologic and pharmacologic therapy should be to control systemic blood pressure in a simple, affordable, and nontoxic fashion that provides an adequate quality of life.
  • (3) It was concluded that ochratoxin A was cleaved into the nontoxic ochratoxin alpha and phenylalanine by the contents from all but the abomasum.
  • (4) In cell cultures, replication of different strains of HSV type 1 (HSV-1) and HSV-2 was inhibited at nontoxic drug concentrations.
  • (5) The relative nontoxicity of a somatostatin analogue such as Somatuline suggests that chronic or maintenance therapy of slow-growing prostate cancers may be both feasible and acceptable in a clinical setting.
  • (6) We determined alterations in plasma and red-cell electrolyte concentrations associated with digoxin administration in 11 children in heart failure, 24 nontoxic patients receiving maintenance digoxin and 11 children in whom digoxin toxicity developed.
  • (7) Although therapy for FHV-1 infections of cats is often difficult, the recent development of nontoxic antiviral drugs that demonstrate considerable efficacy against FHV-1 offers hope for improved therapeutic success in the future.
  • (8) The nontoxic component of L toxin was 12S and possessed a hemagglutinin activity of about 0.5% that of type A crystalline toxin; that of M toxin was 7S and possessed no hemagglutinin activity.
  • (9) They are relatively nontoxic but share with penicillins a tendency to elicit hypersensitivity reactions.
  • (10) Administration of toxic RSE, but not nontoxic MPL, after the establishment of toxoplasma infection significantly shortened the survival time of mice.
  • (11) SAM is a nontoxic physiological metabolite virtually free of side effects.
  • (12) Human placental chorion is thus capable of releasing in vitro a nontoxic heat-resistant factor with protein characteristics that reversibly inhibits processes associated with the early stages of lymphoid cell triggering.
  • (13) The TM sequence-derived synthetic peptide blocked in a nontoxic and sequence-specific manner the release of murine leukemia virus from two chronically infected cell lines.
  • (14) Menadiol, menadione, and two structurally related congeners were equitoxic to HLN cells, but sodium metabisulfite (present in menadiol solutions as a preservative) was nontoxic.
  • (15) Intravital staining of islets with neutral red is a specific, nontoxic technique for labeling islets of various species.
  • (16) These data demonstrate that DMDP but not VEP can effectively restore the in vivo intracellular accumulation of DOX in resistant cells at achievable nontoxic plasma concentrations.
  • (17) Thus, as a result of preparative ultracentrifugation and gel-chromatography it was postible to divide the toxic and the nontoxic protective components of Ps.
  • (18) The expression of the diphtheria tox228 gene encoding the nontoxic, serologically related CRM228 mutant diphtheria toxin has been analyzed in Corynebacterium diphtheriae and Escherichia coli.
  • (19) Evaluation of 25, 50, and 100 mug of pimaricin given intravitreally to albino rabbits with Aspergillus endophthalmitis revealed that 25 mug of pimaricin, while nontoxic to the retina, was ineffective in inhibiting the fungal process.
  • (20) Activation of human neutrophils with opsonized particles in the presence of a nontoxic dose of 1-naphthol resulted in inhibition of superoxide anion production but not of the phagocytotic activity of the cells.

Poisonous


Definition:

  • (a.) Having the qualities or effects of poison; venomous; baneful; corrupting; noxious.

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.

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