Antidepressant medications can be helpful for reducing depression symptoms in some people, especially in people with severe depression. Psychotherapy is also an effective treatment, either alone or in combination with medications.
dioxin. a highly toxic and teratogenic chlorinated hydrocarbon that is a trace contaminant in the herbicide 2,4,5-T. Acute poisoning causes vomiting, abortion, anestrus. Chronic poisoning causes liver damage, especially in dogs. Congenital defects caused include cranio-facial deformity and anasarca.
cyanide poisoning poisoning by cyanide or one of its compounds; most cyanide compounds are deadly poisons. Characteristics include nausea without vomiting, dizziness, convulsions, opisthotonos, and death from respiratory paralysis.Treatment varies according to the nature of the poison.yanide poisoning. Poisoning caused by any of several cyanide-containing compounds, very potent blockers of cellular oxygenation. They inhibit respiration by blocking oxidative phosphorylation at the cellular level.