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Definition of Antivenom
1. [n -S]
Medical Definition of Antivenom
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Antivenom
Literary usage of Antivenom
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1904)
"Venom + antivenom. Normal after 3J hours in saline and new (Two ... transverse
section - 14 - 14 After 11 hours in venom + antivenom and new transverse ..."
2. Personal hygiene applied by Jesse Feiring Williams (1922)
"If a suitable quantity of antivenom be mixed with a poisonous dose of snake ...
Again, if a suitable amount of antivenom serum be injected into an animal ..."
3. Twentieth Century Practice: An International Encyclopedia of Modern Medical by Thomas Lathrop Stedman (1899)
"This mediaeval practice has been mentioned only to show that the belief upon
which it was based, viz., that there exists in the serpent tribe an "antivenom" ..."
4. The Toxins and Venoms, and Their Antibodies by Marius Emmanuel Pozzi-Escot (1906)
"antivenom, which they filtered through a layer of gelatin, under the supposition
that, if the venom and its antivenom were not chemically combined, ..."
5. International Medical and Surgical Surveyby American Institute of Medicine by American Institute of Medicine (1922)
"Titration of antivenom serums in South America is done by a modified V. Brazil
... antivenom globulin (A. Homer's concentration method) neutralizes more ..."
6. Progressive Medicine by Hobart Amory Hare (1899)
"He shows that about the same quantity of antivenom required to neutralize venom
in vitro is also able to do so when the former is injected into the blood ..."
7. Microbes & Toxins by Étienne Burnet, Charles Broquet, William Macdonald Scott (1912)
"antivenom Sera.—These are prepared by immunizing horses, beginning with ...
antivenom serum is polyvalent, ie, is prepared with several species of venom. ..."
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