SNAKEBITE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does snakebite mean? 

• SNAKEBITE (noun)
  The noun SNAKEBITE has 1 sense:

1. a bite inflicted by a (venomous) snake

  Familiarity information: SNAKEBITE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SNAKEBITE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A bite inflicted by a (venomous) snake

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("snakebite" is a kind of...):

bite (a wound resulting from biting by an animal or a person)

 Context examples 

In India some 46,000 people die and 140,000 face disability every year from snakebite.

(‘India needs region-specific snakebite antivenoms’, SciDev.Net)

Another key issue is the dearth of basic information about the incidence of snakebite.

(Snakebite resolution set for Health Assembly approval, SciDev.Net)

India needs region-specific anti-venoms to deal with a large variety of venomous snakes in order to reduce death and morbidity from snakebite, says a new study.

(‘India needs region-specific snakebite antivenoms’, SciDev.Net)

Another project that began in March in Nepal and Cameroon, Snake-Byte, is looking to understand the epidemiology and impact of snakebite.

(Snakebite resolution set for Health Assembly approval, SciDev.Net)

However, Himmat Saluba Bawaskar, an expert in internal medicine at the Bawaskar Hospital and Research Center, Maharashtra state, tells that in his 40-year clinical experience he has observed that snakebites associated with the ‘big four’ mostly respond well to the currently available polyvalent antivenom.

(‘India needs region-specific snakebite antivenoms’, SciDev.Net)

Efforts to tackle snakebite — a recent addition to the WHO’s list of neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) — will take a step forward this month with a resolution set to be approved at the World Health Assembly.

(Snakebite resolution set for Health Assembly approval, SciDev.Net)

In India, where an estimated 50,000 people die of snakebite each year, the Big 4 Mapping Project has just completed its first year of real-time mapping to help build a picture of snake activity across the country.

(Snakebite resolution set for Health Assembly approval, SciDev.Net)