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antivenene en · NOUN

Etymology

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

Meanings

1. (Australia, UK, countable, uncountable) Synonym of antivenom.
   • What he really means is that the recommended use of anti-venene does not entirely agree with one set of medical opinion. 1973, East African Wild Life Society, World Wildlife Fund, Africana, volume 5, page 5:
   • 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 ; 1898, Royal Microscopical Society (Great Britain), Journal of the Royal Microscopical Society, page 623:
   • 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. 1978, Australian Broadcasting Commission, A Big Country: More Stories about the People of Australia, page 13:

Forms

Synonyms

antivenom