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A brown recluse spider is shown. The darker brown violin shaped marking on the dorsal cephalothorax gives the spider its other common name, fiddle-back.
Image: University of Nebraska Cooperative Extension in Lancaster County.
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A close-up of the head shows the three pairs of eyes and the incurved fangs. The brown recluse is one of the two venomous spiders endemic to the United States capable of envenomation toxic enough to cause death in humans (see discussion.)
Image: University of Nebraska Cooperative Extension in Lancaster County.
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The patient returned three days after discharge with signs of reinfection.
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