What's the difference between legless and snake?

Legless


Definition:

  • (a.) Not having a leg.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In this report, we describe the dysmorphologic phenotype associated with the transgenic insertional mutation legless.
  • (2) The abnormality resulting in legless condition which appeared in one pedigree mating in the R.I.R.
  • (3) The phenotype of the legless mutation in homozygous perinatal mutants is compared to wild-type nontransgenic and heterozygous siblings.
  • (4) "We spent three days getting legless and then they asked us if we had any problems," he said.
  • (5) The legless (lgl) insertional mutation can serve as a tool to analyze specific events in limb development at the embryologic, genetic, and molecular levels.
  • (6) Howard tried to dose her up with hemp, Glenn's trying to get her legless.
  • (7) The comparison between Lizards and Snakes leads to the following conclusions: Snakes are less different among themselves than the Lizards, but the species of modern type (Caenophidia) are more telencephalized; they show a proper brain organization; meanwhile the legless condition is expressed, like in the so-called lizards, by a reduced cerebellar volume.
  • (8) Very conveniently, his uncle died at more or less the same time; so they transplanted uncle's legs to legless nephew, who later went on Stars in Their Eyes: "Tonight, Matthew, I'm going to be Simon and Half-uncle."
  • (9) The analysis of these indices is carried according to the legless condition, tree-dwelling life, vision performance and the various possibilities to group the species (taxonomic units such as family or another else); the comparison of the various indices corroborates the pecularities of the Lacertomorpha on the one hand and of the Dracomorpha on the other hand.
  • (10) Because after its original test screening, a woman sued MGM claiming it had forced her to miscarry, thus prompting the studio to perform cuts on the film so savage that they unwittingly reenacted the brutal mutilation meted out in revenge to its leading “normal” protagonist, who starts out as Cleopatra of the trapeze, and ends up as the legless, tarred-and-feathered Chicken Lady.
  • (11) An increase in urine volume and sodium excretion was observed during HOI in both normal (P less than 0.05) and legless subjects.
  • (12) The other, a charred, legless corpse, was still in the truck.
  • (13) Hindlimbs were uniformly truncated at the distal end of the femur, resulting in a "legless" appearance.
  • (14) The trains ran late, and were always crowded; their denizens included chain-snatchers, raggedy buskers and countless beggars, including at least two legless individuals, manoeuvring with remarkable agility between the cars on their wheeled boards.

Snake


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To drag or draw, as a snake from a hole; -- often with out.
  • (n.) Any species of the order Ophidia; an ophidian; a serpent, whether harmless or venomous. See Ophidia, and Serpent.
  • (v. t.) To wind round spirally, as a large rope with a smaller, or with cord, the small rope lying in the spaces between the strands of the large one; to worm.
  • (v. i.) To crawl like a snake.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Analysis of the product by equilibrium density centrifugation and processive hydrolysis with snake venom phosphodiesterase suggested that the noncomplementary nucleotides were present in phosphodiester linkage.
  • (2) In the far east is the arid, depressed country leading down Hell’s Canyon, which bottoms out at the Snake River, which the wolves crossed when they moved from Idaho, and which they now treat more as a crosswalk than a barrier.
  • (3) Snakes did not only exhibit the major cell- and humoral-mediated immune functions, but these functions appeared to be linked with the degree of MLR disparity.
  • (4) Weighed amounts of lyophilized venom from each snake were compared chronologically for variation in isoelectric focusing patterns, using natural and immobilized gradients.
  • (5) In the last 5 years, 29 children have been treated in our institution for snake bites, all with signs of envenomation.
  • (6) Forty patients with Crotalidae snake bites were evaluated and treated over a 7-year period.
  • (7) The presence of proteins antigenically related to Bothrops asper myotoxins in various snake venoms, mainly from South America, was investigated by using polyclonal and monoclonal antibodies.
  • (8) PCB residues occurred only in snakes collected near a heavily-traveled highway.
  • (9) Snake curaremimetic toxins are known to bind to the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor (AcChoR) [Changeux et al.
  • (10) "Ministers must urgently get behind a different approach to food and farming that delivers real sustainable solutions rather than peddling the snake oil that is GM ."
  • (11) The prevention of sea-snake bite and poisoning is considered.
  • (12) The prothrombin activator from the venom of Oxyuranus scutellatus (Taipan snake) was purified by gel filtration on Sephadex G-200 and ion-exchange chromatography on QAE-Sephadex.
  • (13) In the anterior section of the snake, the vagal trunks contained many cell bodies with colocalized vasoactive intestinal polypeptide and substance P-like immunoreactivity.
  • (14) While the hemagglutination activity of each of the previously described lactose-binding snake venom lectins is inhibited by reducing agent, the activities of BML and JML are not affected by reducing agent.
  • (15) Here’s Marie-Josée Kravis, advisor to the New York Fed, accessorizing brilliantly with her snake-effect silk scarf off on a power walk with her billionaire financier husband Henry Kravis, head of predatory investment company KKR.
  • (16) A platelet-aggregating activity was found in many snake venoms, predominantly those of the genus Bothrops, that is apparent only in the presence of the platelet-aggregating von Willebrand factor of plasma.
  • (17) Water snakes (Natrix natrix), rat snakes (Ptyas korros), cobras (Naja naja), pythons (Python molurus), tortoises (Kachuga sp.
  • (18) By using snake-venom diesterase over short periods of incubation, it was confirmed that the ATP had been incorporated terminally as AMP into the placental tRNA.
  • (19) Pro-Morsi marches regularly snake from the sites, disrupting traffic across much of Cairo and causing further government frustration.
  • (20) The snake with the longest journey took nine months to reach its destination.

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