- Look up
noxious in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Noxious describes any
happening that is
perceived as harmful. It may also
refer to: Poison, substances...
- A
noxious stimulus is a
stimulus strong enough to
threaten the body's
integrity (i.e.
cause damage to tissue).
Noxious stimulation induces peripheral afferents...
- A
noxious weed,
harmful weed or
injurious weed is a weed that has been
designated by an
agricultural or
other governing authority as a
plant that is harmful...
- Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Stinkweed is a
common name for
several noxiously scented plants, and may
refer to:
Ailanthus altissima (stinkweed tree)...
-
attributed to the
Scottish physician Daniel Rutherford in 1772, who
called it
noxious air.
Though he did not
recognise it as an
entirely different chemical substance...
- the
acetic acid. The
behavioural responses to a
noxious stimulus differ between species of fish.
Noxiously stimulated common carp (Cyprinus carpio) show...
- nocere 'to harm/hurt') is the
sensory nervous system's
process of
encoding noxious stimuli. It
deals with a
series of
events and
processes required for an...
- The
Federal Noxious Weed Act of 1974 ("FNWA", Pub. L. 93–629, 88 Stat. 2148,
enacted January 3, 1975)
established a
federal program to
control the spread...
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mechanism that
gives them
their name: when disturbed, they
eject a hot
noxious chemical spray from
their pygidial glands with a
popping sound. The spray...
- biology,
immunity is the
state of
being insusceptible or
resistant to a
noxious agent or process,
especially a
pathogen or
infectious disease. Immunity...
