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Crotaline

Crotaline \Crot"a*line\ (kr?t"?-l?n or kr?`t?-), a. [See Crotalus.] (Zo["o]l.) Resembling, or pertaining to, the Crotalidae, or Rattlesnake family. [1913 Webster] ||

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crotaline

a. (context zoology English) Resembling, or relating to, the Crotalinae, or rattlesnake subfamily.

Usage examples of "crotaline".

Setting the boy’s lesser age and resistant power against the fact of the laborer’s being bitten in a worse place (for crotaline venom is much more effective in an upper limb or extremity than in a lower), we have a fairly illustrative instance of the relative merits of alcoholic and non-alcoholic measures.

There is nothing in these data to indicate that a full-grown man in normal health, and with proper treatment, will succumb to crotaline poisoning unless the venom enters a vein, direct.

I have heard of similar recurrent effects from crotaline poisoning, but none scientifically attested, as is this phenomenon.

The venom is related to snake poison, but is neither crotaline nor elapine.