Definition of Crotalidae

1. Noun. New World vipers: pit vipers.


Medical Definition of Crotalidae

1. A family of New World vipers characterised by the presence of a heat-sensitive loreal pit between each eye and nostril, and folding, caniculated, long anterior fangs. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Crotalidae

Crooke's granules
Crooke's hyaline change
Crooke's hyaline degeneration
Crookes
Crookes-Hittorf tube
Crookes radiometer
Crookes tube
Cropper
Crosby
Crosby capsule
Cross
Crossopterygii
Crotalaria sagitallis
Crotalaria spectabilis
Crotalidae (current term)
Crotalus adamanteus
Crotalus antitoxin
Crotalus atrox
Crotalus cerastes
Crotalus horridus atricaudatus
Crotalus horridus horridus
Crotalus lepidus
Crotalus mitchellii
Crotalus scutulatus
Crotalus tigris
Crotalus toxin
Crotalus viridis
Crotaphytus
Croton bug

Literary usage of Crotalidae

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Edinburgh Medical Journal (1871)
"42 Crotalidae, 6 ... 15 21 76 The cranium of a snake is built up of a number of bones which have their homologues in the mammalian skull, ..."

2. The Geographical Distribution of Animals: With a Study of the Relations of by Alfred Russel Wallace (1876)
"The Palaearctic region has only 2 peculiar genera, belonging to the Colubridae and Crotalidae. The Ethiopian has 25, belonging to 11 families; ..."

3. The Nineteenth Century (1889)
"The Crotalidae or pit vipers have several genera in India. They are less dangerous than their American congeners, but are all poisonous. ..."

4. A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica by John Henry Clarke (1900)
"Crotalus Cascavella. A Brazilian Rattle-snake. N. 0. Crotalidae. ... The poison of Cascavella is as deadly as that of the other Crotalidae, and the general ..."

5. Saint Louis Medical and Surgical Journal (1894)
"To the last sub-division, Viperine snakes, belong the Crotalidae, ... The Crotalidae of the United States are represented by ten species and three ..."

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