"Bothrops" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A genus of poisonous snakes of the VIPERIDAE family. About 50 species are known and all are found in tropical America and southern South America. Bothrops atrox is the fer-de-lance and B. jararaca is the jararaca. (Goin, Goin, and Zug, Introduction to Herpetology, 3d ed, p336)
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D017837
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| MeSH Number(s) |
B01.050.150.900.833.672.125.937.240.375
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