noun
definition
A poison carried by an animal, usually injected into an enemy or prey by biting or stinging.
definition
Feeling or speech marked by spite or malice; vitriol.
verb
definition
To infect with venom; to envenom; to poison.
adjective
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Poisonous, poisoned; (figuratively) pernicious.
Examples of venom in a Sentence
She spoke, venom in her voice.
Venom replaced saliva and his jaw began to ache.
The ache returned to his jaw as he swallowed venom, and the fangs painfully emerged.
The toxicity or relative strength of the cobra venom has been calculated to be sixteen times that of the European viper.
She stiffened briefly as she realized what had happened, but before she could even raise a hand to resist; his venom had produced a surge of euphoria.
Luckily, you don't have to be stung to benefit from bee venom!
Dried venom keeps indefinitely, and dissolves readily in water.
Often a snake will give you a'dry ' bite containing no venom.
His words were spoken with an unusual amount of venom.
Gladys, because I saw the venom in her eyes after Shipton took advantage of her.
If the venom is slowly absorbed, the blood loses its coagulability, owing to the breaking down of the red blood-corpuscles, most so with vipers, less with Australian snakes, least so with the cobra.
Although this result is best obtained when the venom and serum are mixed in a glass before injection, yet if they be injected at the same time in different parts of the body the animal will still be protected and the poison will not produce its usual deadly results.
What occurs with snake venom takes place also when the toxins are formed by microbes, and a new method of treatment by anti-toxic serums has been introduced of late years with great success.
It is interesting to note that in the case of the closely analogous example of snake venoms, there may be separated from a single venom a number of toxic bodies which have a selective action on different animal tissues.
Will he have the families spitting lyrical venom or are hip-hop reinforcements required?
Very few species of spider are able to inject venom through human skin.
Contrary to popular belief, spider venom can't kill the average human being.
Scorpion venom The sketch writers are the best read chroniclers of the passing parliamentary pageant.
He attacked the whole notion of social change and reserved his worst venom for the ' swinish multitude '.
On top of that the Ash tree has always been regarded as a protector and a supreme medicine against the venom of snakes.
Often a snake will give you a 'dry ' bite containing no venom.
I do n't get why previous comments should therefore show so much venom to a Labor web site World Cup blog.
But Roger sang it and I do n't think I could sing it with the same particular venom.
The images shown below are all of the same slide; a venom gland from a parasitic wasp.
Luckily, you do n't have to be stung to benefit from bee venom !
Stingray wounds should be washed with saltwater and then soaked in very hot water for 30 to 90 minutes to neutralize the venom.
He ceased drinking, but still allowed venom to flow freely until she finally loosened her grip, exhausted.
Weir Mitchell and others have shown that serpent venom consists chiefly of albumoses, and the toxins formed by infective bacilli have a somewhat similar chemical nature.
When this is clotted the serum is found to act as an anti-venin, so that when mixed with the venom of a snake it renders it harmless.
It wasn't the venom she feared, although she was cautious, but the way the body writhed and slithered.
This was due to the organ having to produce white corpuscles in huge quantities in defense against the snake's venom.
This poison fang is supplied with venom from a gland in the head.
Entering service in July 1954 it became the Royal Air Forceâs standard single-seat fighter, replacing Meteor, Saber and Venom aircraft.
Full, pursing lips, Waiting perhaps to open, to receive, not sure; Possibly venom to spit.
The depletion is unaffected by cobra venom factor treatment and thus presumably does not depend on complement lysis (Isaacs et al 1992 ).
The venom of the wasp contains a pheromone that acts as an alarm causing other wasps to become more aggressive.
We had puff adders around, and if their venom enters your system, you have 12 hours to live.
October 2001 The Boulmer Venom An account of how a Venom was force landed on one of the disused runways at Boulmer in 1953.
Most of the species located in the south and central America area have a less active venom.
Dr. Bryan Fry gets up close and personal to milk its deadly venom.
Spiders use webs to trap their victims, then using their potent venom, they slowly digest their prey.
I don't get why previous comments should therefore show so much venom to a Labor web site World Cup blog.
But Roger sang it and I don't think I could sing it with the same particular venom.
Pit viper venom can involve virtually every organ system.
The potential danger of these creatures should not be underestimated for their poison is 75% the strength of cobra venom, .
His first effort, a 25-yard volley, struck with venom, stung the hands of Doblas.
The venom is destroyed by reagents which precipitate prdteids in an insoluble form, or which destroy them, e.g.
Instead, chemists studied the structure of the proteins from the snake venom.
Instead of breathing fire it spat venom or spewed poison gas.
Recently a more convenient way of benefiting from bee venom therapy has become available, which does n't require you being stung or injected !