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ophiotoxins

ophiotoxins is the plural of ophiotoxin.

Meaning of ophiotoxin

Noun

ophiotoxin (plural ophiotoxins)

  1. (obsolete) Any toxin present in a snake venom.
    • 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.1924, Norman Morrison, The life-story of the adder, page 125

Questions about ophiotoxins

What is ophiotoxins the plural of?
Ophiotoxins is the plural of ophiotoxin.

Words near ophiotoxins in the dictionary

  1. ophiothamnid
  2. ophiothamnids
  3. ophiothricid
  4. ophiothricids
  5. ophiotoxin
  6. ophiotoxins
  7. ophiotrichid
  8. ophiotrichids
  9. Ophir
  10. Ophir City
  11. ophiruoid

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