Wikipedia:
loxoscelism
A condition produced by the bite of the brown recluse spider of North America
and characterized by a gangrenous slough at the site of bite, nausea, malaise, fever,
hemolysis, and
The term appears to be derivative of the spider's scientific classification, Loxosceles reclusa.
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