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noxious | American Dictionary

noxious
adjective
us/ˈnɑk·ʃəs/
(esp. of a gas) poisonous or harmful:
noxious gases

Examples of noxious

noxious
Open dots, units inhibited by noxious stimulus; filled dots: units excited by noxious stimulus.
In addition, pupil size and heart rate were monitored routinely to ensure their stability when noxious pinch stimuli were applied.
The units typically had large somatic receptive fields and responded to noxious mechanical (clamp) stimulation of the distal extremities and the lip.
Pain is fundamental in a way that most commentators appreciated in terms of the universality among animals of response to noxious stimuli.
Interestingly, the dimension has an obvious face-valid relationship to the noxious experience of withdrawal symptoms.
The absolute strength and activity of the noxious agents!, together with the vulnerability of the person to such an insult are the critical factors.
One major issue to be addressed is whether these somatosensory regions demonstrate intensity encoding capacity within the noxious range.
Of these, 17 cells were also excited by noxious somatic stimuli applied in the lower part of the body.
Both observations suggest that there are noxious substances in the seed coat.
The atmosphere "was noxious beyond description" and he writes that seven people died of typhus fever as a result.
Reportage concentrated on the noxious impact of sewage and ignored or exonerated the misdemeanors of industrialists.
Furthermore, one would expect the public to demand controls on the more noxious and toxic pollutants which create the greatest disutility at the local level.
Any form of "noxious effluvia," particularly that expelled from the body, would have been held suspect.
The most noxious form from the president's perspective is party-balancing limitations on appointments.
The neural body was pure but susceptible to outside noxious infections.
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