self-envenomation

English

Etymology

From self- +‎ envenomation.

Noun

self-envenomation (countable and uncountable, plural self-envenomations)

  1. The injection of a venom into oneself by means of a sting, etc.
    • 2025 May 2, Ari Daniel, “He let snakes bite him some 200 times to create a better snakebite antivenom”, in NPR:
      [Tim] Friede's motivation evolved to see if he could develop immunity to this swirl of toxins — so that his body might provide a roadmap to making a broad kind of antivenom. Now, in a new paper in the journal Cell, researchers say they've done just that, thanks in large part to the antibodies that Friede has developed over nearly a quarter century of self-envenomation.

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