Amanita muscaria

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Amanita muscaria - poisonous (but rarely fatal) woodland fungus having a scarlet cap with white warts and white gillsfly agaricagaric - a saprophytic fungus of the order Agaricales having an umbrellalike cap with gills on the undersideAmanita, genus Amanita - genus of widely distributed agarics that have white spores and are poisonous with few exceptions

Amanita muscaria

Am·a·ni·ta mus·ca·'ri·a

a toxic species of mushroom with yellow-to-red pileus and white gills; it contains muscarine, a cholinomimetic, which produces psychosislike states and other symptoms. Synonym(s): fly agaric

Amanita muscaria

A poisonous red-speckled mushroom which, with related species, A pantheria, contains muscarine. It is a cousin of the deadly "Angel of Death" mushroom.
Clinical findings
Patient becomes drowsy 20 to 90 minutes after ingestion, then manic/agitated; in children, seizures may occur.

Management
Supportive, drugs for seizures.

Am·a·ni·ta mus·ca·ri·a

(am'ă-nī'tă mŭs-kă'rē-ă) A toxic species of mushroom with yellow to red pileus and white gills; contains muscarine, which produces psychosislike states and other symptoms.

Amanita muscaria

Amanita muscaria

Am·a·ni·ta mus·ca·'ri·a

Amanita muscaria

Am·a·ni·ta mus·ca·ri·a

Amanita muscaria

Synonyms for Amanita muscaria

noun poisonous (but rarely fatal) woodland fungus having a scarlet cap with white warts and white gills

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