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Discover LudwigThe phrase "adult bite" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing the behavior or actions of adults, particularly in relation to biting, whether literally or metaphorically.
Example: "The dog was trained to respond to commands, but it still had a tendency to give an adult bite when it felt threatened."
Alternatives: "mature bite" or "grown-up bite".
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How often do adults bite?
With 10 times the toxins needed to kill an adult, its bite is called the kiss of death.
Before the introduction of miniplates and miniscrews, the treatment options for adult open bite patients were either orthognathic surgery involving at least maxillary Le Fort I impaction or orthodontic camouflage by extruding the anterior teeth.
Even adult shark bites are extremely rare and generally happen when the fish mistake swimmers or surfers for sea lions or other marine animals, scientists believe.
Among 15 soil biotopes obtained from farm buildings, only 1 showed the emergence of adult Culicoides biting midges.
Details of frequency of Leishmania lesions in suspected patients, lesion duration after adult sandflies' biting, lesion types, and lesions' numbers are shown in Table 1.
Tick nymphs and adults can bite persons in caves (4, 5). A. vespertilionis tick populations in Europe and South Africa exist in temperate climates with pronounced seasonal changes and moderate to heavy rainfall.
It follows from this series of correlations that the evolution of resistance to the microsporidian would lead to adults that bite less frequently and die younger than sensitive mosquitoes.
It is well adapted to peridomestic environments with its larvae breeding in artificial containers and adults aggressively biting humans and different animals during the day [3].
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