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the original syringe, perfected by reptiles millions of years before anyone thought to sterilize it
means A long, sharp, pointed tooth — especially the kind a snake or dog uses to bite or inject venom.
from From Old English 'fang,' meaning a catching, capture, or booty — the prize seized rather than the tooth that seizes it. It comes from the verb 'fon,' to seize or grasp, and is related to the Old Norse 'fang' (a grasp or catch) and German 'fangen' (to catch). The tooth-sense is surprisingly late: only in the 1500s did 'fang' shift from 'the thing that grips' to 'the thing that does the gripping,' settling on the predator's seizing tooth. The grasping root still lingers in 'newfangled' — literally 'eager to grab the new.'
- hollow design
- Viper fangs are folding hypodermic needles made of bone
- constant regrowth
- Sharks shed and replace teeth their whole lives
- word root
- Comes from Old Norse meaning to seize or grasp
- venom delivery
- Some snakes inject venom through grooves, not tubes
- folding mechanism
- Rattlesnake fangs rotate flat against the upper jaw
saber-toothed cat — extinct felid with 7-inch canines, lived during pleistocene epoch
moray eel — fish with venomous fangs up to 1 inch long, found in tropical oceans
gaboon viper — african snake with 2-inch fangs, longest of any venomous snake