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sting medical definition
verb
- To pierce or wound painfully with or as if with a sharp-pointed structure or organ, as that of certain insects.
- To introduce venom by stinging.
- To cause to feel a sharp smarting pain by or as if by pricking with a sharp point.
- The act of stinging.
- The wound or pain caused by or as if by stinging.
- The venom apparatus of a stinging organism.
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