cobra bite
Deadly serpent's strike
A cobra bite is the wound inflicted when a cobra strikes and injects venom.
The term appears in medical contexts discussing snakebite treatment and in figurative use for something swift and deadly: The criticism hit like a cobra bite.
Unlike most snake bites, cobra bites deliver neurotoxic venom that can cause paralysis and respiratory failure without prompt treatment.
- venomInjected animal poison
- venomous snakeSerpent with toxic bite
- fangsSharp piercing teeth
- snakeLimbless scaled reptile
- poisonHarmful ingested substance
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- stings and bitesbee sting, wasp sting, snakebite, scorpion sting, jellyfish sting
- venomous bitesscorpion sting, venom, envenomation, fang marks, antivenom