Antivenin

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  • noun. An antitoxin active against the venom of a snake, spider, or other venomous animal or insect.
  • noun. An animal serum containing antivenins. It is used in medicine to treat poisoning caused by animal or insect venom.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. Same as antivenene.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. The serum of blood rendered antitoxic to a venom by repeated injections of small doses of the venom; also, the component of such a serum which is antitoxic to the venom.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. An antitoxin for treating bites from venomous animals as such as snakes and spiders.
  • noun. A serum containing antivenins.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. an antitoxin that counteracts the effects of venom from the bite of a snake or insect or other animal
  • Word Usage
    "Ants endowed with a compulsion to chew through grass stems at a particular height, snakes engineered to create antivenin in a mammalian-derived sheath, beetles gifted with digestive enzymes that converted discarded plastics into chitin."
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    antitoxin  
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