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Recent Examples of antiveninTheir bite is extremely painful and, but luckily, an antivenin (a.k.a. anti-venom, or an injection given to boost antibodies against a particular poison) now exists.—Emilia Benton, Women's Health, 30 June 2023 The pros at the hospital can identify the venom by its effects and choose the proper antivenin based on that.—Avery Hurt, Discover Magazine, 10 Apr. 2023 The items on his manifesto include exporting dog meat and harvesting snake venom to make antivenin.—Michael M. Phillips, WSJ, 6 Aug. 2022 At the hospital he was treated with antivenin, KDVR reported.—Tribune News Service, oregonlive, 14 July 2022 See All Example Sentences for antivenin
Funding a promising breakthrough In laboratory trials with rodents, the new nanobody antivenom prevented the deaths of mice exposed to venoms from 17 of the 18 snake species.
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Andrew Paul,
Popular Science,
29 Oct. 2025
Also known as a water moccasin, this darkly colored—usually near-black or olive brown—snake isn’t aggressive, but its bite is fatal without rapid administration of an antivenom.
Pelosi became the first speaker to regain the office in some 50 years, and her second term, from 2019 to 2023, became potentially more consequential than the first, particularly as the Democratic Party’s antidote to Trump.
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