See Also: amphibian venoms(medicine)
Bernard-Sergent syndrome(medicine)
Sergent, Emile(medicine)
Sergent's white line(medicine)
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amphibian(dictionary)
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ant venoms(medicine)

Bernard-Sergent syndrome (medicine) and amphibian venoms (medicine)


Bernard-Sergent syndrome (medicine)


Bernard-Sergent syndrome -->
acute adrenocortical insufficiency


Severe adrenocortical insufficiency when an intercurrent illness or trauma causes an increased demand for adrenocortical hormones in a patient with adrenal insufficiency due to disease or use of relatively large amounts of similar hormones as therapy; characterised by nausea, vomiting, hypotension, and frequently hyperthemia, hyponatraemia, hyperkalaemia, and hypoglycaemia; can be fatal if untreated.

Synonym: addisonian crisis, adrenal crisis, Bernard-Sergent syndrome.


amphibian venoms (medicine)


amphibian venoms
Venoms produced by frogs, toads, salamanders, etc. The venom glands are usually on the skin of the back and contain cardiotoxic glycosides, cholinolytics, and a number of Other bioactive materials, many of which have been characterised. The venoms have been used as arrow poisons and include bufogenin, bufotoxin, bufagin, bufotalin, histrionicotoxins, and pumiliotoxin.