Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- 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.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
antivenene .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Physiol. Chem.) 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.
from 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.
from 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
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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Doctors helicoptered antivenin serum in from the National Zoo.
Michael Shwedick's career handling reptiles came from childhood fascination Steve Hendrix 2010
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In attempt to address these issues, Protherics Inc. developed a fragmented antivenin that only utilizes the Fab fragment of the antibody.
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Those patients lucky enough to have survived the sting will receive a rapid IV administration of the antivenin. 4 Anaphylaxis can occur with administration of the sheep derived antivenin (available for primary use against the Chironex fleckeri).
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Doctors helicoptered antivenin serum in from the National Zoo.
Michael Shwedick's career handling reptiles came from childhood fascination Steve Hendrix 2010
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Until recently, all venomous snakebites in the United States have been treated with this whole IgG antivenin.
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Biotechnological advances resulted in a new antivenin that proports to be less immunogenic than the standard antivenin.
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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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These adverse events often included anaphylactoid reactions (23 percent) and serum sickness (50 percent) .1 Although most adverse events did not result in mortality when treated with appropriate medication, such complications are problematic and fueled the development of a less immunogenic antivenin.
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Doctors helicoptered antivenin serum in from the National Zoo.
Michael Shwedick's career handling reptiles came from childhood fascination Steve Hendrix 2010
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Dr. Jeff Mullen with the Seven Hills Veterinary Clinic said his office usually sees or two cases each season but they've handled five cases this month and have had to order additional antivenin.
Denver Veterinarians Report Unusually High Incidence Of Rattlesnake Bites In May 2010
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