seropneumothorax (seronumothoraks)

[ gether with as pneumohydrothorax. s pneumonyd seropurulent (se-ro-pu'rö-lent), a. [L. serum, serum, + purulent us, purulent.] Composed of serum mixed with pus. Their serpent windings and deceiving crooks. P. Fletcher , Purple Island, ii. 9. II. n. 1. A scaly creature that crawls on the belly; a limble reptile; properly, a snake; any member of the order Ophidia (which see for technical characters). Serpent and snake now mean precisely the same thing; but the word serpent is somewhat more formal or technical than snake , so that it seldom applies to the limble lizards, many of which are popularly mistaken for and called snakes, and snake had originally a specific meaning. (See snake .) Serpents are found all over the world, except in very cold regions. Most of them are timid, inoffensive, defensele animals; others are among the most dangerous and deadly of all creatures. Some are very powerful, in consequence of their great size and faculty of constriction, as boas, pythons, and anacondas. Those which are not venomous are known as innocuous serpents, or Innocua; those which are poisonous are noxious serpents, or Nocua, sometimes collectively called Than a top hid i a. All are carnivorous; and most are ma in a serpent-like form. - Rat-tailed serpent. See rat-tailed.- Serpent starfish. Same as serpent -star.The old serpent, Satan. And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent , which is the Devil, and Satan. Rev. xx. 2. Some, whose souls the old serpent long had drawn Down, as the worm draws in the wither'd leaf. Tennyson, Geraint.