Venomous and poisonous marine animals : a medical and biological handbook / medical editors, John A. Williamson, Peter J. Fenner, Joseph W. Burnett ; biology editor, Jacqueline F. Rifkin
- Bib ID:
- 2868246
- Format:
- Book
- Description:
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- Sydney, Australia : University of New South Wales Press ; Fortitude Valley, Qld. : Surf Life Saving Queensland, [1996]
- 504 p. : ill. (some col.), maps ; 27 cm.
- ISBN:
- 0868402796
- Full contents:
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- Ch. 1. Historical Background to Marine Envenomation
- Ch. 2. Animal Taxonomy
- Ch. 3. The Injuries, Their Incidence and the Toxins that Produce Them
- Ch. 4. Marine Wound Infections
- Ch. 5. Principles of Patient Care in Marine Envenomations and Poisonings
- Ch. 6. Jellyfish Mechanisms
- Ch. 7. Cnidarian Envenomation
- Ch. 8. Anthozoans, Hydrozoans and Scyphozoans
- Ch. 9. Cubozoans ('box jellyfish')
- Ch. 10. International Information on Jellyfish Stings
- Ch. 11. The Reaction of Exposed Body Surfaces to Cnidarian (and related) stings
- Ch. 12. Phylum Echinodermata
- Ch. 13. Phylum Mollusca
- Ch. 14. Phylum Porifera (sponges)
- Ch. 15. Ciguatera (fish poisoning)
- Ch. 16. Venomous Fish
- Ch. 17. Sea Snakes
- Ch. 18. Marine Stings in the Gulf of Oman
- Ch. 19. Marine Stings in Portugal
- Ch. 20. Japanese Marine Envenomations, and Some Deaths in Okinawa
- Ch. 21. Marine Antivenoms
- Ch. 22. Scuba Diving Perspective
- Ch. 23. Research Aspects.
- Ch. 24. Mystery Syndromes Possibly Associated with Marine Envenomations
- Ch. 25. Platypus Envenomation
- Ch. 26. 'Stop press' information.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [456]-487) and index.
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- Venomous & poisonous marine animals
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