(n.) Any one of several species of venomous American snakes belonging to the genera Crotalus and Caudisona, or Sistrurus. They have a series of horny interlocking joints at the end of the tail which make a sharp rattling sound when shaken. The common rattlesnake of the Northern United States (Crotalus horridus), and the diamond rattlesnake of the South (C. adamanteus), are the best known. See Illust. of Fang.
Example Sentences:
(1) It’s unthinkable that they wouldn’t do that.” The Saw ride at Thorpe Park in Surrey and the Dragon’s Fury and Rattlesnake rollercoasters at Chessington World of Adventures, also in Surrey, have also been shut down by Merlin Entertainments, which owns all three parks.
(2) A history of dessicated rattlesnake ingestion as a "natural" remedy in either capsule or powder form was obtained in all but one of the 7 patients.
(3) Middle ear morphology and behavioural observations of kangaroo rats jumping vertically to avoid predation by owls and rattlesnakes support this view.
(4) Explanations of these results have included accelerated evolution in the snake lineage, paralogy rather than orthology, and faulty determination of the sequence, and the rattlesnake is now often omitted from cytochrome c phylogenetic trees.
(5) The venom of the South American rattlesnake Crotalus durissus terrificus was originally reported to have a pathophysiological activity mainly involving hemolysis and neurotoxicity.
(6) The most interesting results of single gene phylogenies have been the anomalies, such as insulin in hystricomorphs or cytochrome c in the rattlesnake.
(7) Review of the literature disclosed three additional cases of extragastrointestinal S arizona infection linked to rattlesnake capsule ingestion, all associated with underlying medical illness.
(8) The most significant differences from PLA2 s from bovine pancreas and rattlesnake occur in the stretches 56-80 and 85-89.
(9) The sequence of two overlapping cDNA clones for the zinc metalloproteinase hemorrhagic toxin e (also known as atrolysin e, EC 3.4.24.44) from the venom gland of Crotalus atrox, the Western diamondback rattlesnake, is presented.
(10) 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).
(11) Three Hispanic patients at our institution developed extragastrointestinal Salmonella arizona infection associated with the ingestion of rattlesnake capsules.
(12) The venom of the South American rattlesnake Crotalus durissus terrificus was first reported to have mainly haemolytic and neurotoxic physiopathological activities.
(13) We report a simple method for the isolation of gyroxin, a protein from the venom of the South American rattlesnake Crotalus durissus terrificus.
(14) Nevertheless, the rattlesnakes continued to exhibit behavioral responses to thermal cues after anesthetization of the pits.
(15) Intracompartmental pressure measurements should be considered as an adjunct in the monitoring and decision-making processes for the treatment of patients bitten by rattlesnakes.
(16) The histology and development of three extensive glands in the porocephalid pentastomid Porocephalus crotali is described by light and electron microscopy, during growth of the parasite to an infective stage in the tissues of mouse; the infective stage in rattlesnake definitive hosts is also included.
(17) We describe an apparatus for immobilization of the rattlesnake head for brain experimentation.
(18) The effects of crotoxin, the neurotoxin of the venom of the South American rattlesnake (Crotalus durissus terrificus), was studied by using the myenteric plexus-longitudinal muscle preparation of the guinea pig ileum.
(19) Fast atom bombardment (FAB) mass spectrometry was used to identify a new small myotoxin from the venom of the prairie rattlesnake (Crotalus viridis viridis).
(20) Three hemorrhagic toxins with proteolytic activity were isolated from the venom of Crotalus ruber ruber (red rattlesnake).
Sidewinder
Definition:
(n.) See Horned rattler, under Horned.
(n.) A heavy swinging blow from the side, which disables an adversary.
Example Sentences:
(1) After analysis of the catheter maneuvers inherent to the special shape of the type of catheter used (Sidewinder, Cordis Corporation), it is concluded that this complication resulted from incorrect catheter manipulation and an incorrect choice of the dimensions of the preshaped part of the catheter in relation to the diameter of the aortic arch.
(2) Synchronized electromyography and cinematography were used to determine the muscle activity of colubroid snakes during sidewinding and concertina locomotion.
(3) A hairpin bend between the strictured ureter and the ileal conduit was easily negotiated by reforming a Sidewinder loop within the contralateral ureter and withdrawing it until the tip entered the conduit.
(4) The Simmons sidewinder catheter is frequently used, but reforming its unique curve may be a problem.
(5) The characteristics of the "sidewinder-technique" are emphasized.
(6) Reforming an open loop in the ascending aorta is the first step in performing selective catheterization of the aortic arch branches, using a sidewinder catheter.
(7) Sidewinding locomotion of Nerodia fasciata and Crotalus cerastes was the result of continuous posterior propagation of contractile blocks consisting of several adjacent muscle segments.
(8) Use of a special guide wire contributed to the successful performance of safe femorocerebral angiography with the Simmons sidewinder catheter in the 47 of 48 elderly patients in whom it was performed.
(9) At 7.24am, one of them opened fire with an air-to-air missile, believed to be a US-made Aim-9 sidewinder .
(10) A Simmons (sidewinder) catheter is maneuvered into the ascending aorta and is rotated as to assume its performed shape.
(11) Best known for the big melodies of Everybody Hurts, The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonight and Man on the Moon, a murkier, older REM mood prevails on Automatic for the People – try the arresting Try Not to Breathe, about an old man grappling with death, a cousin to Green's similarly affecting You Are the Everything, or the woozy New Orleans Instrumental No 1.
(12) Reformation of the curve of the Simmons sidewinder catheter may be difficult in some patients, and the originally described technique using the left subclavian artery may be unsuccessful.
(13) Through using the sidewinder catheter system for visceral angiography in over 200 patients we have improved our success rate.
(14) A three-dimensional left coronary bypass graft catheter with a sidewinder configuration is described.
(15) During sidewinding, the activity of the M. longissimus dorsi and M. iliocostalis was primarily unilateral, beginning when a body region was convex and ending when it was maximally concave on the side of the active muscle.