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  • noun Plural form of hemotoxin.

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Examples

  • I've also read that the venom includes hemotoxins, meaning that it destroys red blood cells.

    Jakarta IMC Newswire 2009

  • I've also read that the venom includes hemotoxins, meaning that it destroys red blood cells.

    Jakarta IMC Newswire 2008

  • I've also read that the venom includes hemotoxins, meaning that it destroys red blood cells.

    Jakarta IMC Newswire 2008

  • The body count in Democracy is remarkable, not even including the Reuters correspondent and the AID analyst who are poisoned in Saigon in 1970 by oleander leaves, "a chiffonade of hemotoxins."

    The Black Album Leonard, John 2005

  • To predigest their prey, most rattlers produce so-called cytotoxins and hemotoxins, which damage tissue and disrupt blood clotting.

    Scientific American 2009

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