self-envenomation
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.47 in modern English
24
Scrabble Score
16
Letters
7
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "[Tim] Friede's motivation evolved to see if he could develop immunity to this swirl of toxins — so that his body might provide a roadmap to making a broad kind of antivenom. Now, in a new paper in the journal Cell, researchers say they've done just that, thanks in large part to the antibodies that Friede has developed over nearly a quarter century of self-envenomation."
Etymology
From self- + envenomation.