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Nature's injection system — venom delivered with zero consent and perfect aim.
means The act or process of venom being injected into a body, usually via a bite or sting.
from Built from 'envenom' — en- (to put into) plus 'venom,' which traces back through Old French 'venim' to Latin 'venenum,' meaning poison or magic potion (it originally could mean a love charm before narrowing to something deadlier). The '-ation' tacks on the clinical, process-noun ending, turning an old curse-word into a tidy medical term.
- not a bite
- the bite is free, the venom is the crime
- deadliest culprit
- snakes kill far fewer than mosquitoes annually
- self-inflicted irony
- some snakes are immune to their own venom, not all
- treatment paradox
- antivenom is made by injecting the same venom into horses