Medical Dictionary
Main Entry:
Lat·ro·dec·tus Pronunciation:
-'dek-t&s Function:
noun : a genus of nearly cosmopolitan spiders of the familyTheridiidae that includes most of the well-known venomous spiders (as the black widow,
L. mactans), that are of medium size and dark or black in color and often marked with red, and that have alarge globular usually glossy abdomen and long and wiry legs
