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Dermotoxins

Medical Definition:	Specific substances elaborated by plants, microorganisms or animals that cause damage to the skin; they may be proteins or other specific factors or substances; constituents of spider, jellyfish or other venoms cause dermonecrosis and certain bacteria synthesize dermolytic agents.
Guide Notes:	/antag permitted but consider also ANTITOXINS; coord IM with source of dermotoxin (IM or NIM); do not use for dermatoxicity of various chemicals & drugs ( = SKIN /drug eff or skin dis heading /chem ind + Cat D term /adv eff-pois-tox)
Also Called:	Epidermotoxins
Previously Indexed:	Skin (1966-1977),Toxins (1966-1977),specific skin heading (1966-1977)

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