ophiotoxin
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- Rhymes: -ɒksɪn
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ophiotoxin (plural ophiotoxins)
- (obsolete) Any toxin present in a snake venom.
- 1924, Norman Morrison, The life-story of the adder, page 125:
- It is probable that Faust's ophiotoxins of a glucoside nature collaborate with the protein globulin and proteose to produce the effects so markedly evident in the symptomatology of adder poisoning.
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