English

Alternative forms

• antivenene

Noun

anti-venene ‎(plural anti-venenes)

1. (Britain, Australia) Antivenom, antivenin.
   • 1898, Royal Microscopical Society (Great Britain), Journal of the Royal Microscopical Society, page 623,

     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 ;

   • 1973, East African Wild Life Society, World Wildlife Fund, Africana, Volume 5, page 5,

     What he really means is that the recommended use of anti-venene does not entirely agree with one set of medical opinion.

   • 1978, Australian Broadcasting Commission, A Big Country: More Stories about the People of Australia, page 13,

     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.