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:While it's true that in zoology and medicine venom and poison are separate concepts, to the lay reader there is little distinction. Outside those disciplines, venom is simply a specific type of toxin, and toxins are essentially biological poisons. | :While it's true that in zoology and medicine venom and poison are separate concepts, to the lay reader there is little distinction. Outside those disciplines, venom is simply a specific type of toxin, and toxins are essentially biological poisons. | ||
:That said, I can't see where on the page the term poison is used where venom might be more accurate (perhaps the instance that prompted this topic was already removed), and Ekans being a Poison-type Pokémon rather than a real-world snake, it could potentially be both venomous and poisonous. --[[User:AndyPKMN|Andy<sup>P</sup><sub>K</sub><sup>M</sup><sub>N</sub>]] [[User talk:AndyPKMN|(talk)]] 19:28, 11 July 2011 (UTC) | :That said, I can't see where on the page the term poison is used where venom might be more accurate (perhaps the instance that prompted this topic was already removed), and Ekans being a Poison-type Pokémon rather than a real-world snake, it could potentially be both venomous and poisonous. --[[User:AndyPKMN|Andy<sup>P</sup><sub>K</sub><sup>M</sup><sub>N</sub>]] [[User talk:AndyPKMN|(talk)]] 19:28, 11 July 2011 (UTC) | ||
== Ekans not an egg eating snake == | |||
Ekans' teeth aren't just showing like many pokemon.[[User:Bennell|Bennell]] 20:21, 20 March 2012 (UTC) |
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