(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.
Cobra
Definition:
(n.) See Copra.
(n.) The cobra de capello.
Example Sentences:
(1) Cobra collapsed into administration in 2009 after which Lord Bilimoria was criticised for using a “pre-pack” deal to buy back a stake in the firm.
(2) Phospholipase A2 from cobra venom (Naja naja naja) is a homogeneous, heat-stable enzyme that has a monomer molecular weight of only 11,000 and contains one histidine and one tryptophan residue.
(3) Most double-helical segments were reactive to cobra venom ribonuclease to some degree; the exceptions were the five "long-range" helices that are probably compactly folded within the structure.
(4) Only the enzyme from Naja naja naja (cobra) venom was found to be activated significantly by phosphorylcholine-containing compounds when hydrolyzing phosphatidylethanolamine.
(5) Sera depleted of terminal complement components by treatment with inulin or cobra venom factor and C8-deficient human serum did not support phagocytosis of the test strains.
(6) Cobra poly C9 that is resistant to reduction and boiling in SDS could also be demonstrated.
(7) (4) Proper vein-to-artery size ratio and "cobra-head" vein tailoring are desirable.
(8) Without injection of cobra venom factor, the organisms were eliminated rapidly from the lungs in the majority of mice, accompanied by a significant but transient decrease in the serum C3 level.
(9) The absence of chemical reactivities and cobra venom nuclease sensitivity in the terminal loops of helices 6 and 12 indicate a tertiary interaction unique to HeLa 18S rRNA.
(10) Water snakes (Natrix natrix), rat snakes (Ptyas korros), cobras (Naja naja), pythons (Python molurus), tortoises (Kachuga sp.
(11) Cobra plasma also lysed EAC1423 cells in presence of EDTA but not EAC142 cells (prepared with sheep erythrocytes, rabbit antibody, and human complement proteins) indicating the presence of C5 in cobra plasma that is susceptible to activation by the human C5 convertase.
(12) Adrenal gland is studied histologically in the common krait, the cobra and the viper.
(13) Venom entered the eyes of 9 patients spat at by the spitting cobra, Naja nigricollis.
(14) Enhanced cancer cell retention after cobra venom factor was not seen in mice deficient in complement component C5 and was diminished by pretreatment of animals with antineutrophil antibodies, catalase, inhibitors of lipoxygenase, thromboxane synthetase, and lipid peroxidation (oxygen radical scavenger).
(15) Complement depletion by prior treatment with cobra venom factor, caused a significant reduction of the thrombocytopenia, whereas DL-2-mercaptomethyl-3-guanidinoethylthiopropanoic acid, an inhibitor of carboxypeptidase N, potentiated the thrombocytopenia elicited by submaximal doses of either IgG aggregates or a homogeneous preparation of rat anaphylatoxin containing C5a.
(16) Cytolytic activity of cytotoxin isolated from the venom of the Indian cobra (Naja naja) on experimental tumor cells was far stronger than that on normal cells such as peritoneal exudate cells, spleen cells, and erythrocytes of the rat.
(17) The immunotoxin (IT) was prepared by conjugating cytotoxin from Chinese Cobra (Naja naja Atra) venom with monoclonal antibody (McAb) Wu71 directed to human T-cells.
(18) The make-up of the Cobra committee depends entirely on the nature of the issue, as the name refers to the location of the meeting, not a particular set of people.
(19) Only by depleting complement with cobra-venom factor could hamster xenograft survival be prolonged, and long-term survival was achieved by combining CsA with COF.
(20) We have previously described the irreversible inhibition of cobra venom phospholipase A2 (PLA2) by the marine natural product manoalide (MLD) (Lombardo, D., and Dennis, E. A.