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cyanide poisoning

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cyanide poisoning
[sī′ənid, -nīd]
Etymology: Gk, kyanos, blue
poisoning resulting from the ingestion or inhalation of cyanide from such substances as bitter almond oil, wild cherry syrup, prussic acid, hydrocyanic acid, or potassium or sodium cyanide. Characterized by tachycardia, drowsiness, seizures, headache, apnea, and cardiac arrest, it may cause death within 1 to 15 minutes.


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The investigating officer noticed a black substance around her mouth and nose and, recalling similar evidence from a case 12 years earlier, suspected possible cyanide poisoning.
Later that same day, more than 900 of his fellow residents were either murdered or committed suicide by cyanide poisoning.
An Illinois court, for example, recently convicted a corporate officer of murder in the death of an employee from cyanide poisoning, according to Avchen.
 
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