Medical term:

Echis

(ek'is, ē'kis),

The saw-scaled or carpet viper, a genus of small (under 1 m), irritable, and alert snakes with a highly toxic venom; they are responsible for numerous snakebite cases with many fatalities.

[G. echis, a viper]

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echistatin

(ek-i-stat'in),

A monomeric disintegrin (q.v.) isolated from crotalid venom.

[fr. Echis, genus of source viper, + G. istēmi, to check, arrest, + -in]

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