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.

Annotation

/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)

DUI

D003885 MeSH Browser

CUI

M0006066

Previous indexing

Toxins (1966-1977); Skin (1966-1977); specific skin heading (1966-1977)

History note

78

Public note

78