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Definition of Antivenins
1. antivenin [n] - See also: antivenin
Medical Definition of Antivenins
1. Proteinaceous materials used in the treatment of poisoning by animal venom. (12 Dec 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Antivenins
Literary usage of Antivenins
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Immune Sera: A Concise Exposition of Our Present Knowledge Concerning the by Charles Frederick Bolduan, August von Wassermann (1908)
"... serum-complement serve for activation, but, according to Noguchi,1 the fatty
acids contained in the red blood cells also act as complement. antivenins. ..."
2. The Venom of Heloderma by Leo Loeb (1913)
"The majority of the investigators in the field of snake venoms have come to the
conclusion that antivenins have a definite specific relation to the venom ..."
3. Practical Bacteriology, Blood Work and Animal Parasitology: Including by Edward Rhodes Stitt (1916)
"antivenins.—The active agents of snake venoms may be either of the nature of ...
antivenins should be administered either intravenously or intramuscularly. ..."
4. Rational therapy by Otto Lerch (1919)
"antivenins are produced by injecting an animal with grad- ally increasing ...
antivenins are now largely used for therapeutic purposes in India and in South ..."
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