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a chemistry lesson your nervous system does not survive to appreciate.
means a substance that damages, disrupts, or destroys the function of nerve tissue, often by jamming the signals neurons send to muscles and organs.
from from greek neuron (nerve) plus toxikon (poison for arrows), literally a poison built to hit the wiring, not just the tissue.
botox ironya neurotoxin also smooths wrinkles at micro-doses
speed matterssome block signals in milliseconds, others take hours
puffer fishtetrodotoxin has no known antidote, ever
venom vs poisonvenom is injected, neurotoxin just needs contact