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crotalin
[ kroht-l-in ]
noun
, Biochemistry.
- a protein in the venom of pit vipers, used as an antigen in the preparation of snake antivenins.
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It was a combination of crotalin venom and ptomaine poisons, a very deadly mess.
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After all, no one knew of the use of crotalin to kill Stella Lamar except the murderer himself, and Kennedy and those of us in his confidence.
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It is as simple to learn how to use crotalin or botulin toxin or any number of hundreds of deadly substances as it is to obtain the majority of them.
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"You see"—Nagoya spoke as he finished the test he was making at the moment—"without a doubt it is crotalin, the venom of the rattlesnake, Crotalus horridus."
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Crotalin can be obtained now with fair ease.
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