viperidic

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English

Etymology

From viperid (member of the family Viperidae, noun) +‎ -ic (suffix forming adjectives).

Adjective

viperidic (not comparable)

  1. (rare, non-native) Of, belonging to, or relating to viperids.
    • 1997 November, Paulo Lee Ho, Marcelo Bento Soares, Thomas Maack, Ignacio Gimenez, Giuseppe Puorto, Maria de Fátima Domingues Furtado, Isaias Raw, “Cloning of an Unusual Natriuretic Peptide from the South American Coral Snake Micrurus corallinus”, in European journal of Biochemistry, volume 250, number 1, page 146:
      It was also shown that M. corallinus natriuretic peptide is more similar to a natriuretic peptide characterized from the Elapidic snake Dendroaspis angusticeps (Schweitz, 1992) than to the B. jararaca CNP characterized from the viperidic snake Bothrops jararaca (Murayama et al., 1997).
    • 1998, A.M. Soares, L.H. Anzaloni Pedrosa, M.R.M. Fontes, R.J. Da Silva, J.R. Giglio, “Polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis as a tool for the taxonomic identification of snakes from the Elapidae and Viperidae families”, in Journal of Venomous Animals and Toxins, volume 4, number 2:
      Thus, 2 elapidic and 13 viperidic venoms were analyzed by basic PAGE, from which characteristic electrophoretic patterns could be obtained (Figure 1A).
    • 2011 December, Juliana I. dos Santos, Fábio F. Cardoso, Andreimar M. Soares, Maeli dal Pai Silva, Márcia Gallacci, and Marcos R. M. Fontes, “Structural and functional studies of a bothropic myotoxin complexed to rosmarinic acid: new insights into Lys49-PLA2 inhibition”, in PloS One, volume 6, number 12:
      One of the main problems regarding viperidic accidents is prominent local tissue damage whose pathogenesis is complex and involves the combined actions of a variety of venom components.