What's the difference between cobra and serpent?

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.

Serpent


Definition:

  • (n.) Any reptile of the order Ophidia; a snake, especially a large snake. See Illust. under Ophidia.
  • (n.) Fig.: A subtle, treacherous, malicious person.
  • (n.) A species of firework having a serpentine motion as it passess through the air or along the ground.
  • (n.) The constellation Serpens.
  • (n.) A bass wind instrument, of a loud and coarse tone, formerly much used in military bands, and sometimes introduced into the orchestra; -- so called from its form.
  • (v. i.) To wind like a serpent; to crook about; to meander.
  • (v. t.) To wind; to encircle.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Dozens of wet-suited arms arc rhythmically above the water like small sea serpents, churning the lake as they go.
  • (2) ‘We were simple as doves, wise as serpents’: Portugal toast Euro 2016 win Read more Has any player been through as many contrasting emotions in the space of a major final?
  • (3) In the beginning, then, this mythology goes, the biologist was in the middle of the ocean, "surrounded by venomous sea serpents", preparing to meet his genome.
  • (4) What is striking is the success of independent publishers with four represented on the list – Canongate, Serpent's tail, Atlantic and Granta.
  • (5) As with all Hawthorne's fantastic stories, and especially those written for Mosses , like "The Bosom Serpent" or "The Birth-Mark" (in which a husband becomes so obsessed with his otherwise ravishing wife's single blemish that he resolves to remove it at whatever cost), there is more going on here than an exercise in the ornamental grotesque.
  • (6) Resting metabolic rates (RMR) of 34 species from 18 genera of boas and pythons (Serpentes: Boidae), with body masses ranging from 2 to 67,800 g, were determined as oxygen consumption (VO2) and carbon dioxide production (VCO2) at three ambient temperatures (Ta).
  • (7) The way a bull's penis looks – like a red serpent... it's incredibly hard to watch.
  • (8) The moral emblem at the heart of Van Hoytl the Younger's painting is of course the oldest of all Judaeo-Christian symbolic objects: the apple with which the serpent tempted Eve.
  • (9) A subtler example is the mythological status snakes - the serpent of Eden, Ouroboros in Greek myth - hold in most cultures.
  • (10) Its soul became Serpent, long enough to be powerful as Cosmic soul.
  • (11) Most importantly, we must enact systemic changes that will uncoil the serpent of corruption that is suffocating our development.
  • (12) In his latest book, The Serpent's Promise , Jones examines how nurture and nature are inseparably intertwined.
  • (13) No visit from Dr Freud is needed to recognise that the devouring snake lurking deep in the body of the hysteric in "The Bosom Serpent" is not just the "egotism" of the longer title of the story, but guilt for auto-erotic naughtiness.
  • (14) Lionel Shriver is the author of We Need to Talk about Kevin (Serpent's Tail) Margaret Drabble Photograph: Murdo Macleod The Bell Jar is a novel of reckless vitality, and although it's about death, trauma, suicide and madness, it's as exhilarating as its narrator's first mad dash down the ski slope when she manages triumphantly to break her leg in two places.
  • (15) Recognition of the fact that the amplification mechanisms of the immune system are already fully activated when the clinical features of a serpent ulcer appear and that the destructive phase only represents an unwanted side-effect of the host defense mechanisms towards its own structures has resulted in the application of corticosteroids with simultaneous antibiotic medication and early tectonic perforating keratoplasty.
  • (16) That river is important for dreaming because it travels through the heart of the country, the waterways relate to the rainbow serpent and our totems in the trees,” Burragubba said.
  • (17) Following the advice of another human regarded as a living god , he has been as cunning as a serpent and as peaceful as a dove.
  • (18) Alas, the serpent’s egg was hatching inside the foundations of the emergent union.
  • (19) The present study, using classical microscopy, scanning electron microscopy, transmission electron microscopy, X-ray diffraction, infrared spectroscopy, has shown the dental hard tissues of the fangs of Viperidae (poisonous serpents with terrestrial or semi-aquatic habits) to be constituted of: a calcified outer layer, 0.4 microns thick, made of very small needle-like crystals, randomly distributed.
  • (20) Votive tablets found during the excavation of shrines of the Graeco-Roman god of medicine (Asklepios or Aesculapius) associate the healing of superficial lesions with contact with the oral cavity of non-poisonous serpents.