The spiders, whose bodies grow to almost an inch, give a painful and potentially fatal bite.

It also contains myotoxins and hemotoxins it can easily give a fatal bite.

Adults are large and capable of delivering a painful and potentially fatal bite.

However, caution should be exercised and a safe distance maintained as it can inflict a potentially fatal bite.

The spider quickly envelops its prey with silk and then inflicts the fatal bite.

His lawyers have claimed that the singer dosed himself with a fatal combination of sedatives.

Yet the investigation from the start was a travesty, a fatal combination of corruption and unwillingness to confront reality.

It's a fatal combination, usually marked by manipulative charm and relentless cruelty.

She seems to combine indecision with obstinacy: a fatal combination.

He strove to persuade this wretched old man, almost 80, described by a critic as 'suffering from senility, pessimism and ambition, a fatal combination', to join his government.

He also documented potentially fatal damage to the liver resulting from steroid use.

She had already done her reputation fatal damage.

Nevertheless, its armour protected it from fatal damage.

These he secured around his launch, providing added buoyancy in case it received fatal damage in the engagement he was sure would ensue.

During the attack, she was hit approximately eight times by shellfire, though did not suffer fatal damage.

Their inability to swallow properly means saliva can run into the lungs, triggering the potentially fatal infection.

These are microscopic worms that enter slugs, and to a lesser extent snails, via their breathing hole and then release bacteria, causing a fatal infection.

Had it been a few days later, a perforation would have caused a fatal infection.

There are fewer spores around in summer, so pruning then reduces the risk of a fatal infection.

The exhibition will reflect more recent evidence, which suggests that the pharaoh died after a broken leg caused a fatal infection.

But in cases where issues such as the time of death or the nature of the fatal injury were contentious, his evidence could be decisive.

Monsters were instructed in how to attack adventurers in character, including falling down dead if they were inflicted with a fatal injury.

The enormous creature, which had suffered fatal injuries including a broken skull, was almost as long as the 85ft vessel that found it (seen here).

Based on 2006 data that would amount to about 800 to 1,060 deaths a year, compared with 241 fatal injuries to workers in the 'traditional workplace'.

Suffering fatal injuries, she became a martyr for female emancipation.

The government said the policy would protect lives and the economy but critics said it was making a fatal mistake.

And there are also too many defenders capable of making the one fatal mistake on the night.

Inertia being the one fatal mistake on a short winter afternoon, we set out to walk.

It was a fatal mistake, because radio works in the same way as books do: your imagination comes up with images to accompany the words.

The fatal mistake was to introduce smartphone apps into the process.

The ban was requested by a journalist who said she could suffer a fatal reaction if she came into contact with one.

More than previously feared could now be at risk of a fatal reaction.

More often the patient tolerates several - in one case 164 - doses before the fatal reaction occurs.

But even low-risk medicines such as antibiotics have the potential to cause fatal reactions in a very few.

The 1998 book mentioned 10 but omitted 11 possible fatal reactions to the medicines described.

Our bengal cat had a fatal stroke at the age of six, only a couple of weeks after a jab.

And they had 14 per cent less chance of a fatal stroke.

Doctors at the country's leading cardiac hospital 'brushed off' the worries of a renowned barrister that his condition was deteriorating shortly before he suffered a fatal stroke, a coroner heard.

He suffered a second and ultimately fatal stroke last month.

He lived for three more years until he suffered a second, fatal stroke in 1797.

He said the one-size-fits-all straitjacket nature of the single currency - and the inability of countries to leave - could prove a fatal weakness.

There are two enormous strengths to this production and one fatal weakness.

But he also has a fatal weakness for melodrama and turbo-charged endings, which can run amok through argument.

Her fatal weakness seems to be for high-profile, trophy buildings, the architectural equivalent of rock stars.

People have hailed it for the quality of the tennis but, for me, it was like watching two sharks circling each other, seeking out a fatal weakness.

He died from a fatal wound to the heart.

Instead of dying, men were 'huffed' from the game of draughts - or 'copped a packet', while a 'daisy pusher' was someone with a fatal wound.

The eighteen-year-old died from a fatal wound to his abdomen.

Whilst on tour he died of fatal wounds, aged twenty.

Why not develop a slow-moving but ultimately fatal disease of your own?

He suffered a second and ultimately fatal stroke last month.

The couple took a huge - and ultimately fatal - risk when her husband agreed to follow her.

His battle with liver cancer, which was ultimately fatal, raised awareness of jazz musicians without medical insurance.

Thirteenth century medical science was not capable of determining the cause of death beyond a reasonable doubt after a significant amount of time had elapsed following the ultimately fatal blow.