antivenene

1. (UK and Australia, medicine) Synonym of antivenom.Examples: "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 ;"; "What he really means is that the recommended use of anti-venene does not entirely agree with one set of medical opinion."; "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."Synonyms: antivenomAustraliaUKcountableuncountable