(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.
Udder
Definition:
(n.) The glandular organ in which milk is secreted and stored; -- popularly called the bag in cows and other quadrupeds. See Mamma.
(n.) One of the breasts of a woman.
Example Sentences:
(1) Skin diseases of the udder include viral infections, mange, sunburn, wounds, and staphylococcal dermatitis.
(2) A limit value of 4.6 per cent has been commonly assumed in literature and proved to be a sound basis for udder health assessment, provided that the given phase of lactation is taken into due consideration (exclusion of cows in the first month post partum as well as of aged milking cows from the seventh month of lactation).
(3) Tests for the purchase of milk on quality must include tests for udder health by regular electronic cell counting of raw milk sources.
(4) The inhibitory activity of the secretions on Streptococcus uberis was determined and the susceptibility of the udder to infection by this organism was tested by intramammary infusion of 250 colony forming units at the above stages.
(5) The transfer of spores via the udder or via the maternal feces led to very similar levels of implantation of spores in the digestive tract of neonates.
(6) Dairy form, rear udder height, and rear udder width had strong to moderate positive genetic correlations with the three production traits.
(7) Although infected cell excretion was restricted to one half of the udder, virus-specific lesions were found in both udder halves.
(8) From the results it is apparent that, on subclinical levels, udder health of dairy cows depends in principle on a variety of conditions, variability in dynamic fluctuations and the balance between persistent, deteriorating and improving health states.
(9) When the metal grid was in poor condition, the incidence of teat injuries as well as udder diseases of heifers increased.
(10) In an 11-mo trial, backflushing was applied to teatcups that milked the right half of the udder; the left half served as control.
(11) Subclinical mastitis is a major problem in udder health control.
(12) After the hour 0 sampling (summer only), one side of the udder of each of 12 ewes (group 1) was milked hourly for 4 h, and the opposite side was milked only at 0 and 4 h. Group 2 ewes were milked only at 0 and 4 h and blood was collected from both groups at 0 h and 4 h. Concentrations of prolactin were correlated in pairs of milk or blood samples from the same ewe and in plasma and milk of ewes in group 2 but not in group 1.
(13) Simultaneous isolation of anaerobic bacteria from udder quarter abscesses and mastitic milk from the same quarter occur in some lactating dairy cows.
(14) Analysis of 448 milk samples (11 herds) from caprine udder halves showed that microorganisms were isolated from 21.8% of the samples.
(15) 1 showed that lamb 30-d weights, ewe weights at breeding time, and udder width at peak lactation were highly correlated with suckled milk yield (r = .81, .75 and .66, respectively).
(16) The level of total lactate dehydrogenase activity in dairy cow milk serum was studied in sets of quarter-udder milks showing different degrees of a positive response to Mastitis test-NK.
(17) The secretory capacity of the udder is thus normally established well before parturition in the mare.
(18) In similar experiments the skim milk derived from whole accumulating in the udder overnight was lower in adenosine triphosphate (14.2 muM) than skim milk from freshly secreted milk (26.0 muM).
(19) No germ growth was established from 9.5 per cent of all samples taken from udder quarters with increased cell counts and conductivities and from 4.1 per cent of those samples taken from intact udder quarters.
(20) Effects of oral administration of 0, 5, 10, or 20 mug of 6 alpha, 9 alpha-difluoro-16alpha-methyl-prednisolone (Flumethasone) daily on milk and milk component yields, udder health reproductive performance, and body weight change were measured.