(n.) The skin of a deer, or the leather which is made from it.
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Moccasin
Definition:
(n.) A shoe made of deerskin, or other soft leather, the sole and upper part being one piece. It is the customary shoe worn by the American Indians.
(n.) A poisonous snake of the Southern United States. The water moccasin (Ancistrodon piscivorus) is usually found in or near water. Above, it is olive brown, barred with black; beneath, it is brownish yellow, mottled with darker. The upland moccasin is Ancistrodon atrofuscus. They resemble rattlesnakes, but are without rattles.
Example Sentences:
(1) Of 39 rattlesnake (Crotalus and Sistrurus) bites, 20 patients received antivenin (53%), but of 23 copperhead and water moccasin (Agkistrodon) bites, only three patients (12.5%) received antivenin (p = 0.0025).
(2) We conclude that terbinafine is well tolerated and highly effective in moccasin-type tinea pedis.
(3) Johnny had cut his jeans an inch at the sides so they would splay over his moccasins.
(4) Sulconazole nitrate 1% cream applied twice daily was compared with its vehicle in the treatment of 229 patients with chronic moccasin-type tinea pedis confirmed by positive results of a potassium hydroxide preparation.
(5) So, some things that The Fall is not: a sitcom, a musical, a cooking show presented by men in distressed leather moccasins, a panel quiz, a thing about whales, a police procedural.
(6) The 103 patients with moccasin-type tinea pedis whose cultures were not positive for T. rubrum achieved similar results.
(8) Interdigital, dry-moccasin and pustular-midsole forms can be distinguished.
(9) Poisoning by members of the Crotalidae family (rattlesnakes, cotton-mouths [water moccasins] and copperheads) during pregnancy carries with it a fetal wastage rate of 43% and a maternal mortality rate of 10%.
(10) When you plow behind an old mule and hit a stump hole full of cottonmouth moccasins, you have to get on the move in a hurry and figure out some solution to the predicament or you won't get your corn planted.
(11) The two girls in the second photograph are even more extraordinary, with their exploding bouffants, rolled-up jeans, moccasins, and souls like fire.
(12) Amino-terminal sequence analysis revealed that the tropical moccasin protein C activator was highly homologous to the protein C activator isolated from Southern copperhead venom.
(13) Bites were inflicted by copperheads (56%), water moccasins (15%), and rattlesnakes (12%).
(14) Of practical interest, however, was the high number of responders among the moccasin-type of tinea pedis.
(15) Alkyltransferase activity was higher in A. piscivorus (water moccasins) than in any other species.
(16) The protein is isolated from the venom of the North American water moccasin snake in three steps, including gel filtration, cation exchange, and reverse-phase HPLC procedures.
(17) The safety and effectiveness of oral terbinafine, 125 mg twice daily, and griseofulvin, 250 mg twice daily, in patients with moccasin-type tinea pedis were examined in a double-blind randomized trial.
(18) A 67-year-old white man presented with bilateral blancing erythema and scale of the second through fifth toes extending on to the dorsa and moccasin areas of the feet for two years.
(19) In the study reported here, terbinafine has been compared to griseofulvin in patients with moccasin type tinea pedis.
(20) Penetration can be markedly increased by pretreatment of the axons with cottonmouth moccasin venom.