Acanthophis antarcticus


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Noun1.Acanthophis antarcticus - venomous Australian snake resembling an adderAcanthophis antarcticus - venomous Australian snake resembling an adder
death adder
elapid, elapid snake - any of numerous venomous fanged snakes of warmer parts of both hemispheres
Acanthophis, genus Acanthophis - Australian elapid snakes
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(77) In the late 1920s he was employed as a shake collector by the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, travelling regularly to the Chinchilla district of southern Queensland where death adders (Acanthophis antarcticus) were particularly common.
Fangs and faith: the search for an effective antidote against snake envenomation in Australia
We examined prey capture kinematics and their morphological correlates in Acanthophis antarcticus and compared them to published reports of terrestrial vipers.
Strike kinematics in death adders: convergence with vipers?
Similarly, Flachsenberger [16] showed that at otherwise lethal doses, all animals survived as a result of early AChEI treatment following IP administration of adder (Acanthophis antarcticus) venom.
Early treatment with intranasal neostigmine reduces mortality in a mouse model of Naja naja (Indian cobra) envenomation

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