| 单词 | ciguatera |
| 释义 | ciguatera|sɪgwəˈtɛərə|
Also siguatera.
[Amer. Sp. (A. Parra Descripción de Diferentes Piezas (1787) 100), f. cigua sea-snail.]
A tropical disease affecting the nervous system, caused by eating the toxic flesh of certain fishes found in the West Indies and the south Pacific. Hence ciguaˈtoxic a.; ciguaˈtoxin.
1862Social Sci. Rev. I. 77/1 The Spanish colonists gave the name of Siguatera to that union of symptoms which results from the eating of poisonous fishes indigenous to hot countries. 1905D. S. Jordan Guide to Study of Fishes I. xii. 182 Severe cases of ciguatera with men, as well as with lower animals, may end fatally in a short time. 1960Ann. N.Y. Acad. Sci. XC. 788 Ciguatera is a neurotoxic form of ichthyosarcotoxism caused by the ingestion of a poison occasionally found in marine fishes. 1963D. W. Hessel in Keegan & Macfarlane Venomous & Poisonous Anim. Pacific 203 (title) The extraction and partial purification of ciguatera toxin. 1965B. W. Halstead Poisonous & Venomous Marine Animals I. i. 99 Several papers..concerned largely with the public health restrictions governing the sale of ciguatoxic fishes in Cuba. 1967Ibid. II. iii. 63 Under proper circumstances any fish living in the sea may be a potential transvector of ciguatoxin. |
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