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Definition of Bee sting
1. Noun. A sting inflicted by a bee.
Definition of Bee sting
1. Noun. A hypodermic puncture from a Anthophila resulting in envenomation and often involving the penetration and lodging of a stinger ¹
2. Noun. (slang plural) Very small breasts. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Medical Definition of Bee sting
1. Stings from bees and other large stinging insects such as yellow jackets, hornets and wasps can trigger allergic reactions varying greatly in severity. Avoidance and prompt treatment are essential. In selected cases, allergy injection therapy is highly effective. (The three A's of insect allergy are Adrenaline, Avoidance and Allergist.) (12 Dec 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bee Sting
Literary usage of Bee sting
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Layman's Handbook of Medicine: With Special Reference to Social Workers by Richard Clarke Cabot (1916)
"There are various ways of doing artificial respiration, but I think if we master
this one it will be sufficient. bee sting. We all know the traditional ..."
2. Prevention of Disease and Care of the Sick: How to Keep Well and what to Do by William Gordon Stimpson, Milton Hugh Foster (1919)
"bee sting. The stings of bees and wasps and yellow jackets are very painful but
not dangerous to life unless the victim is attacked by a large number of the ..."
3. Anomalies and curiosities of medicine: Being an Encyclopedic Collection of by George Milbry Gould, Walter Lytle Pyle (1900)
"Thompson f relates three cases of bee-sting, in all of which death supervened
within fifteen minutes,—one in a farmer of fifty-eight who was stung in the ..."
4. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1849)
"Tt «werns generally admitted that a bee's sting is acid, and is best remedied by
the immediate application of strong ammonia. As to wasps, however, ..."
5. The Bee-keepers' Guide: Or Manual of the Apiary by Albert John Cook (1882)
"There are a few people, whose systems seem to be specially susceptible to the
poison intruded with the bee's sting. Sometimes such persons, if even stung on ..."
6. Illustrations of British Blood-sucking Flies by Ernest Edward Austen (1906)
"... and their bite is very virulent, to me worse than a bee-sting, or the bite of
any gnat. I have never seen them before in anything like the quantities, ..."
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