Fluoroacetates
"Fluoroacetates" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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Derivatives of acetic acid with one or more fluorines attached. They are almost odorless, difficult to detect chemically, and very stable. The acid itself, as well as the derivatives that are broken down in the body to the acid, are highly toxic substances, behaving as convulsant poisons with a delayed action. (From Miall's Dictionary of Chemistry, 5th ed)
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D005463
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D02.241.081.018.285 D02.455.526.510.286
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| 2009 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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