The agents of contagion may have been the shared suspicion that people around you were falling victim to some sort of noxious substance and the powerful sympathetic reaction to seeing other people scratch.
If crayfish have specialized nociceptors, these sensory neurons may detect other sorts of noxious stimuli, but we have found no other stimuli that elicit these nociceptive behaviours yet.
RR: The important thing scientifically is that a lot of other animals, in addition to the human species, react in the same sort of way to noxious stimuli, show the same kind of neurochemical correlates of pain, and the biochemistry and neural structures are similar.
Like Gaffer Hexham, Noddy Boffin and John Harmon scavenging on the reeking dust heaps and fetid water bodies of London 150 years ago, Boo's characters struggle to better themselves by sorting, selling and recycling the noxious refuse of modern Bombay.
This adaptation takes the form of a noxious cocktail.
Instead of paying the high cost of safe disposal, many companies and state and local governments make deals for their noxious wastes, old chemicals, banned pesticides and all sorts of scrap with middlemen who in turn ship it to foreign countries.
"Outdoor events can get trickier," Louden Noxious said, "because should the monsters go on some sort of crazy rampage, it'll be more difficult to stop them from crushing western Brooklyn".
James Madison was an environmentalist of sorts, warning about how "vital air becomes noxious". John Adams idolized astronomers.
Even Soviet leaders made their visitors walk down lengthy corridors in the noxious fug of Russian central heating, so they arrived bleary and out of sorts.
Then I emptied every noxious sauce I had in my cupboard on to it, including beetroot and all sorts of oils that make big stains.
Management thereby won a doubleheader of sorts — theoretically, the Rays instantly became a green franchise, cutting down on noxious car fumes, but also encouraged fans to bring along a fourth passenger: "Johnny, why don't you bring along your friend Billy?
