Internal medicine

Organic chemistry

Ingestion

Nitrate

Amyl nitrite

Poison control

Physiology

Biology

Chemistry

Methemoglobin

Sodium nitrite

Nitrite

Methemoglobinemia

Hemoglobin

Toxicology

Medical emergency

Toxicity

Food science

Anesthesia

Oxygen

Medicine

Hypoxia (environmental)

Legal Medicine

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