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centipede bite

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centipede bite
[sen′təpēd]
Etymology: L, centum, hundred, pes, foot
a wound produced by the poison claws and the first body segment of a centipede, an elongate arthropod with many pairs of legs. The bite of a few species, including Scolopendra morsitans in the southern United States, may cause painful local inflammation, fever, headache, vomiting, and dizziness.


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Although they are not a great threat to human health, there are incidences where centipede bites have caused medical consequences, but mostly in tropical foreign countries.
 
 
 
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