As you travel through life you were going to quickly discover
that there are many terms that are used interchangeably with one
another. For example, people often use jealousy and envy in the
exact same way, despite the fact that there is a difference
between the two. In one case the person is jealous of something
they don’t have, while on the other hand a person can be envious
of somebody even though they already have that object or
position that the other person has. It may be a subtle
difference but it is a significant one.
The same is true of the way that people use the terms venomous
and poisonous. A lot of people will talk about a snake being
poisonous when they actually mean that it is venomous, and vice
versa. This may seem like it is no big deal at all, but the
truth of the matter is that there is a significant difference
between the two and this helps you to be able to understand the
necessary precautions you need to take should you be bitten by a
snake. It’s important to understand what is the difference
between a venomous snake versus a poisonous snake.
The Poisonous Snake
What makes these two kinds of snakes different is the location
of where the poison is held within the snake and how it is
released as a result. This is why the term venom makes such a
significant difference in relation to the kind of snake that you
are talking about.
One a person gets a poison from a snake it is absorbed into the
lining of their skin, thus gaining access into the bloodstream
where it is distributed throughout the body. This can be quite
tragic to the organism that has been afflicted by the poison
because it can affect such systems as the circulatory and
respiratory systems. This can stop a heart from beating, it can
cause the lungs to become paralyzed, or it can constrict vessels
so that blood is unable to flow.
In the poisonous snake, for a person to get the poison inside of
them they must in just the snake itself. This will cause the
person or other animal to become ill, and may even lead to death
in many instances. The most common way that people are poisoned
by a snake is when they eat it for food. If they have not cooked
it properly or removed the poison from the snake it can cause
them to become sick during ingestion and they can easily die
from it.
Understanding this means that the snake does not somehow inflict
its poison into you or any other organism.
The Venomous Snake
This is not true with this kind of snake. This is the most
common snake that people are familiar with in terms of their
fear of being poisoned and dying. The venomous snake will bite
you, thus injecting its poison into you or any other organism,
so that it’s venom is spread throughout the organism’s body.
There are four different kinds of venom that can be injected
into another organism. The two most common kinds are
neurotoxins, which affect the nervous system, thus often leading
to paralysis, and cardiotoxins, which affect the heart and stop
it from beating. In either one of these cases the injection of
this kind of venom into an organism will most assuredly lead to
death. The other two kinds of toxins are cytotoxins and
hemotoxins which affect blood and cells within the body. The
effects of these kinds of venoms can be different depending on
the size of the organism that is bitten.
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