antivenene

See also: anti-venene

English

Alternative forms

• anti-venene

Etymology

From anti- +‎ venene (“venom”), from Latin venēnum (“juice; venom”). Doublet of antivenom and antivenin.

Noun

antivenene (countable and uncountable, plural antivenenes)

1. (UK and Australia, medicine) Synonym of antivenom.
   • 1898, Royal Microscopical Society (Great Britain), Journal of the Royal Microscopical Society‎^[1], page 623:

     His conclusions are that (1) about the same quantity of anti-venene necessary to neutralise the venom in vitro is capable of doing so when the forner is injected into the bloodstream, and the latter sub-cutaneously ;

   • 1973, East African Wild Life Society, World Wildlife Fund, Africana, volume 5, page 5:

     What he really means is that the recommended use of anti-venene does not entirely agree with one set of medical opinion.

   • 1978, Australian Broadcasting Commission, A Big Country: More Stories about the People of Australia‎^[2], page 13:

     Now it became necessary to take venom from captured Taipans, so as to produce anti-venene, and to put it in hospitals right through the danger areas.