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Definition of Lethal agent
1. Noun. An agent capable of causing death.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lethal Agent
Literary usage of Lethal agent
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Progressive Medicine by Hobart Amory Hare (1919)
"Duodenal transplantation definitely shows that the duodenum and its appendages,
singly or collectively, produce the lethal agent which causes death in ..."
2. Practical surgery, diagnostic, therapeutic and operative by Burnett Roswell Hubbard (1911)
"HYDROCYANIC ACID—This lethal agent acts quickly, giving little time to obtain
antidotal remedies. Ten to fifteen drops of ammonia given intravenously will ..."
3. Proceedings of the second Pan American scientific congress: Washington, U. S by Glen Levin Swiggett (1917)
"Perhaps adjustment of dosage or chemical variation of the basic remedy might
succeed with the adults when once a reliable microfilarial lethal agent or ..."
4. Chemical Warfare by Amos Alfred Fries, Clarence Jay West (1921)
"These substances can produce an intolerable atmosphere in concentrations one
thousand times as dilute as that required for the most effective lethal agent. ..."
5. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1910)
"The fact that plants depend upon light to enable them to get their carbon food
has concealed the fact that it is a lethal agent to naked protoplasm. ..."
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