snakebite
蛇咬伤,蛇咬,蛇咬人,蛇伤
Definitions
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- : the bite of a snake, especially of one that is venomous.
- : the resulting painful, toxic condition.
Examples
Visit these places, he says, and “you will see how devastating the effect of snakebite is.”
During the two annual peaks in snakebite cases — the spring planting and autumn harvest seasons — “we see like six, seven to 10 patients in a day, on average,” he says.
With millions of snakebites occurring every year, there’s certainly many opportunities to improve the situation — and all of them need attention, Casewell says.
In 2017, the WHO officially recognized snakebites as a neglected tropical disease.
Venomous snakebites per year estimated worldwideBut snakebites are finally getting the attention they’ve long needed.
And I never go a step out of the house in the summer without my snakebite kit.
Why, more people died of wasp stings than of snakebite in North America annually.
More than one naturalist had died of fever or snakebite, or had been killed by savages.
This will account for the settlers carrying the snakebite outfit.
Snakebite and its cure have always been the despair of medical science.