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topic: anticoagulant arsenic
description for anticoagulant arsenic
''"Rat poison" redirects here. For the UNIX window manager, see ratpoison.'' Rodenticides are a category of pest control chemicals intended to kill rodents. ''Single feed baits'' are chemicals sufficiently dangerous that the first dose is sufficient to kill. Rodents are difficult to kill with poisons because their feeding habits reflect their place as scavengers. They will eat a small bit of something and wait, and if they don't get sick, they continue. An effective rodenticide must be tasteless and odorless in lethal concentrations, and have a delayed effect. Anticoagulants are defined as chronic (death occurs after 1 - 2 weeks post ingestion of the lethal dose, rarely sooner), single-dose (second generation) or multiple-dose (first generation) rodenticides, acting by effectively blocking of the vitamin K cycle, resulting in inability to produce essential blood-clotting factors (mainly coagulation factors II (prothrombin), VII (proconvertin), IX (Christmas factor) and X (Stuart factor)).
definition for anticoagulant arsenic
medicine that prevents or retards the clotting of blood
related topics for anticoagulant arsenic
Rodenticide, Madarosis, History of poison, List of chemical compounds with unusual names, Blood transfusion, Hepatotoxicity, Hoxsey Therapy, List of skin-related conditions, Buu Hoi, List of oncology-related terms, Herbalism
