(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.
Alder
Definition:
(n.) A tree, usually growing in moist land, and belonging to the genus Alnus. The wood is used by turners, etc.; the bark by dyers and tanners. In the U. S. the species of alder are usually shrubs or small trees.
(a.) Alt. of Aller
Example Sentences:
(1) This was caused by ingestion of branches of the alder buckthorn (Frangula alnus (mill.)
(2) If the majority of relevant tree pollens are to be included in a diagnostic or therapeutic programme in Western Sweden it should contain birch, alder, hazel, beech and bog-myrtle allergens.
(3) Alder was travelling to New Zealand with his friend Liam Sweeney, 28, to watch their team play pre-season friendlies.
(4) In previous experiments it was found that birch, beech, alder, hazel and oak are pollens with importance in pathogenesis of early pollinosis in our region of Central Europe.
(5) Cross-incubations: birch pollen incubated with antibodies against hazel (Ab-CA), or alder (Ab-AI), showed various intensities of gold labelling for each of the three species.
(6) Three diastereomers of bicyclo[2.2.1]hept-5-en-2-yl phenyl sulfoxide were prepared by Diels-Alder [4 + 2] cycloadditions between phenyl vinyl sulfoxide and cyclopentadiene.
(7) Both had Alder type granulations in polymorphonuclear leukocytes and to a lesser degree in monocytes.
(8) This paper documents the experience at the Royal Liverpool Childrens Hospital, Alder Hey, from 1973 to 1989.
(9) We reported earlier that NTP react with unsaturated lipids in a pseudo Diels-Alder reaction, thus forming stable nitroxide radicals.
(10) An improved, large scale synthesis of the ergosteryl acetate-maleic anhydride Diels-Alder adduct and its pyrolysis are described.
(11) Partial identity between the major allergens of birch, beech, alder, hazel and oak pollen extract could be identified by means of RAST-, ELISA- and CRIE-inhibition as well as further types of crossed immunoelectrophoresis.
(12) In the 1960s and 70s it was Dutch elm disease, which killed 30m trees; in the 1990s it was a new Phytophthora which devastated alders along riverbanks.
(13) Mouse hepatoma cell line, Hepa-1, was exposed to acetone extracts of hardwoods (alder and aspen), softwoods (pine and a mixture of pine and spruce) and cellulose materials.
(14) Thirty-nine children with rhinoconjunctivitis due to birch pollinosis were given immunotherapy for 3 years with a potent, purified pollen preparation made from either birch alone or from a mixture of birch, alder and hazel.
(15) With the present demands for purification and standardization of allergen extracts it is of practical and economic interest to know that tree pollen-allergic patients showing positive reactions to birch, alder and hazel extracts can be effectively treated using birch pollen extract alone.
(16) A detailed analysis was made of the reactivity patterns of birch pollen-allergic subjects from Norway and Australia to the various IgE-binding components of pollens from several different birch and alder species.
(17) Results reported here provide the first evidence of birch and alder pollen allergies in Australia.
(18) The content of antigens and allergens of alder (Alnus incana), birch (Betula verrucosa), timothy (Phleum pratense), cat and dog dander, house dust mite (Dermatophagoides farinae), mould (Cladosporium herbarum), hen egg white and codfish (DIII) were investigated by crossed immunoelectrophoresis (CIE), crossed radio immunoelectrophoresis (CRIE), radio allergosorbent test (RAST) inhibition and quantitative precipitation inhibition analysis by laser nephelometry.
(19) The treatment of vitamin D3 acetate with selenium dioxide and t-butyl hydroperoxide leads to a mixture from which a Diels-Alder dimer of 1-oxotransvitamin D3 acetate was isolated.
(20) Among the British victims were Newcastle United fans John Alder, who was in his 60s, and Liam Sweeney, 28, who were travelling to New Zealand to watch the football team's pre-season tour.