ciguatera
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of ciguatera
First recorded in 1860–65; from Latin American Spanish, perhaps from Cuban Spanish cigua, from Taíno “sea slug”
Example Sentences
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And his 1958 foundational paper on the causative agent behind ciguatera poisoning, a foodborne illness experienced by tens of thousands of people annually, has been cited hundreds of times by fellow scientists.
From Washington Post • Apr. 30, 2020
Illness caused by eating fish contaminated with the toxin ciguatera is expected to rise with sea temperatures.
From Scientific American • Sep. 9, 2018
They are concerned that lionfish may contain ciguatoxin, a common tropical poison that causes somewhere between 50,000 and 500,000 cases of ciguatera fish poisoning every year.
From Slate • Jul. 1, 2013
He took care of a family with ciguatera poisoning several months earlier.
From New York Times • Apr. 9, 2010
Get ciguatera poisoning, and there's an even better chance that vomiting, abdominal pains and diarrhea will keep you up all night.
From Time Magazine Archive
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