autotomized
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autotomized
- simple past and past participle of autotomize
- 2016, Justin O. Schmidt, The Sting of the Wild, Johns Hopkins University Press, →ISBN, page 17:
- The remaining small sting apparatus, unnoticed by the target animal, continues to pump venom from the reservoir via muscular action coordinated by a ganglion in the autotomized stinger.