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The spat toxungen is generally harmless on intact mammalian skin (although contact can result in delayed blistering of the area), but can cause permanent blindness if introduced to the eye; if left untreated it may cause chemosis and corneal swelling.
A toxungen comprises a secretion or other bodily fluid containing one or more biological toxins that is transferred by one animal to the external surface of another animal via a physical delivery mechanism with or without direct contact between the secreting animal and the victim. [1] Toxungens can be delivered through spitting, spraying, or ...
Toxin, toxicant, and poison are often used interchangeably despite these subtle differences in definition. The term toxungen has also been proposed to refer to toxins that are delivered onto the body surface of another organism without an accompanying wound. [16]
When he had thus spoken, he spat on the ground, and made clay of the spittle, and he anointed the eyes of the blind man with the clay. John 9:6. Suetonius, Tacitus and Cassius Dio mention Roman Emperor Vespasian treating blindness in a similar fashion. [2] Tacitus mentions that Vespasian consulted with physicians before healing the blind man ...
Forked tongue of a carpet python (Morelia spilota mcdowelli). A forked tongue is a tongue split into two distinct tines at the tip; this is a feature common to many species of reptiles.
A cartoon of Charlie Chaplin spitting on the ground (1931, by Hinko Smrekar). Spitting is the act of forcibly ejecting saliva, sputum, nasal mucus and/or other substances from the mouth.
Spat (angular unit), a unit of solid angle; Spat (distance unit), an obsolete distance unit in astronomy; Spats (footwear), a type of shoe accessory; Wheel spats, British term for aerodynamic fairings that reduce the drag on fixed-undercarriage aircraft; Spat, the past tense of spit; Spat (molluscs), settled larvae of shellfish such as oysters ...
Spats or SPATS may refer to: . Spats (footwear), a type of shoe accessory Spats (radio series), a comedy sketch show on BBC 7; Spats Baxter, a character in Movie Movie (1978), played by George C. Scott