"Agkistrodon" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A genus of venomous snakes of the subfamily Crotalinae. Twelve species of this genus are found in North and Central America and Asia. Agkistrodon contortrix is the copperhead, A. piscivorus, the cottonmouth. The former is named for its russet or orange-brown color, the latter for the white interior of its mouth. (Goin, Goin, and Zug, Introduction to Herpetology, 3d ed, p336; Moore, Poisonous Snakes of the World, 1980, p75)
| Descriptor ID |
D017836
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| MeSH Number(s) |
B01.050.150.900.833.672.125.937.240.250
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| Concept/Terms |
Agkistrodon- Agkistrodon
- Ancistrodon
- Black Moccasin
- Black Moccasins
- Moccasin, Black
- Moccasins, Black
- Swamp Moccasin
- Moccasin, Swamp
- Moccasins, Swamp
- Swamp Moccasins
Cottonmouth- Cottonmouth
- Cottonmouths
- Water Mocassin
- Mocassin, Water
- Mocassins, Water
- Water Mocassins
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