(n.) One who, or that which, adds; esp., a machine for adding numbers.
(n.) A serpent.
(n.) A small venomous serpent of the genus Vipera. The common European adder is the Vipera (/ Pelias) berus. The puff adders of Africa are species of Clotho.
(n.) In America, the term is commonly applied to several harmless snakes, as the milk adder, puffing adder, etc.
(n.) Same as Sea Adder.
Example Sentences:
(1) The gamma-chain from puff adder venom digested D-monomer was isolated and cleaved by cyanogen bromide, and the carboxy-terminal peptide was isolated and sequenced.
(2) While antivenom remains the mainstay in the treatment of snake-bite envenomation, the possible role of anticholinesterase therapy for death-adder bites in Papua New Guinea is discussed.
(3) Total polyadenylated messenger RNA was prepared from the milked venom glands of the South African puff adder (Bitis arietans) and translated in an in vitro translation system.
(4) Rabbits were injected with double the lethal dose of puff adder venom, followed by treatment with the Venom Ex cutting and suction apparatus.
(5) In a retrospective study, 113 bites which occurred in Switzerland within a 16-year period by either of the two indigenous adders (Vipera berus and Vipera aspis) were analyzed.
(6) Brown snakes (genus Pseudonaja) were responsible for 11 deaths; tiger snake (Notechus scutatus) for four, taipan (Oxyuranus scutellatus) two and death adder (Acanthophis australis) one.
(7) Anya was like, Adder actually, and Mary Portas was like, now move on ladies, what matters is that Britfash is facing its biggest crisis since Cherie Blair went out with a matching Burberry tote and booties?
(8) Adding ATP (1 mM) to myosin B suspension and mixing was carried out by hand, using a mixing plunger, and also using the automatic adder mixer.
(9) Two cases of children who suffered adder bites and who developed severe local complications are reported.
(10) Plasma and serum samples obtained from various animals never previously exposed to snakes or snake venom were diffused against different concentrations of puff-adder, Bitis arietans, venom using the double immunodiffusion technique.
(11) Northern blot hybridization of total puff adder venom gland mRNA to its complementary single stranded copy DNA revealed two discrete mRNA populations coding for the major components of puff adder venom.
(12) The first two snakes are common in the region, while amateur herpetologists are at particular risk of being bitten by burrowing adders because of the snake's ability to bite even when held by the back of the neck.
(13) We roam over sand hills knotted with marram grass and wildflowers, singing in case we disturb sunbathing adders, imagining Tarka ducking in and out of warrens.
(14) You may find bitterns making their basso profundo hoot, or you could see otters, dragonflies and adders.
(15) Gastrointestinal symptoms are the most common systemic manifestations of adder envenomation.
(16) The products of cell free synthesis were immunoprecipitable with puff adder venom antiserum.
(17) Salmonella excretion was found in 59% of the adders and in 68% of the grass-snakes.
(18) A young, previously healthy man had severe abdominal symptoms after an adder bite.
(19) On the basis of statistical analysis, the following proteins were found to be members of the cystatin superfamily: human cystatin A, rat cystatin A(alpha), human cystatin B, rat cystatin B(beta), rice cystatin, human cystatin C, ox colostrum cystatin, human cystatin S, human cystatin SA, human cystatin SN, chicken cystatin, puff adder cystatin, human kininogen, ox kininogen, rat kininogen, rat T-kininogens 1 and 2, human alpha 2HS-glycoprotein, and human histidine-rich glycoprotein.
(20) The amino acid sequence of a cystatin from the venom of the African puff adder (Bitis arietans) is reported.
Aider
Definition:
(n.) One who, or that which, aids.
Example Sentences:
(1) « La grande centrale solaire va aider la population et le pays car l’électricité qu’elle fournit est moins chère que l’énergie classique », se réjouit-elle.
(2) In agreement with earlier in vitro studies on the action of GAT-T(s)F, it was demonstrated that under these conditions, low concentrations of GAT-T(s)F stimulated the development of cells which, aider transfer, are able to suppress the GAT PFC response to GAT-MBSA.
(3) The first and constant duty of the nurse aider is to check that the person is breathing by looking, listening and feeling.
(4) The labeling of Kupffer cells aider one or four injections of [(3)H]thymidine reached a peak of 10.4 percent at 48 h or 24.1 percent at 60 h, respectively, indicating that these cells are derived from labeled monocytes.
(5) Last night first aiders were drafted in at St Pancras where thousands of passengers had been queuing for hours after Eurostar services were cancelled.
(6) As regards health activities outside the hospital, she mentions those of the existing health centres and of auxiliary personnel called first-aiders (whose job description is close to the one of the village health workers advocated by WHO and others).
(7) Moreover, a leaked affidavit in the case involving Stephen Kim's leaks to Fox News' Jamie Rosen showed us that the Justice Department has taken a formal position, in sworn affidavit, that it considers the reporters themselves criminals – un-indicted co-conspirators or aiders and abetters.
(8) Musculoskeletal problems are an only too regular daily feature of patients attending family practices, OH departments or indeed confronting the first aider.
(9) The nurse aider, in any situation, should assess the problem and attempt to overcome the airway obstruction using the measures described.
(10) "Harrowing" was how someone described the scene as a first-aider was summoned.
(11) One hundred and forty nine first aiders working in a health authority, 26 in a light engineering company and 35 in food processing plants completed an anonymous questionnaire about their training and first aid work.
(12) He added that police threw teargas inside the cemevi grounds after Kurt had been shot, hampering the efforts of first aiders to help him.
(13) Although 11% of the employees had received first-aid training, half of the firms lacked first-aiders.
(14) The majority of first aiders were in their 30s and had practised first aid for less than a decade.
(15) Training a new generation of first aiders by introducing emergency life-saving skills as a mandatory part of the school curriculum.
(16) Other eye-catching promises in the Tory manifesto includes training schoolchildren to become first aiders, consulting on increasing the speed limit on two key roads to 80mph and reducing student debt by exploring the viability of introducing “compressed” two-year degree courses.
(17) Rodchenkov was specifically identified in the report as an “aider and abettor” of the doping activities and it was recommended he should be “permanently removed from his position”.
(18) As to the extra-curricular dental health education, it seems that the co-operation with the "Young First-Aiders" is especially important.
(19) The aim of this article is to help the nurse aider recognize and manage breathing problems other than those associated with upper airway obstruction.
(20) Resuscitation of the near-drowned child is topical because, (a) of controversies about the optimality of mouth-to-nose expired air resuscitation (EAR) in infants under six months of age; (b) of controversies about the degree of brain damage among child survivors following intensive care salvage; and (c) the difficulties of having "every parent a first-aider".