If ( and only if ) the victim is more than 1 – 2 hours away from a medical facility, it is recommended to place a lightly constricting band ( that admits one finger beneath it ) above the bitten area to prevent the systemic spread of the venom.

A method to help differentiate between venomous and non venomous tri-color snakes in North America is found in the popular phrases " red on yellow, kill a fellow ; red on black venom lack ", " red on yellow's a deadly fellow ; yellow on black's a friendly Jack " or " If red touches yellow, you're a dead fellow ; if red touches black, you're all right, Jack " and " Red and black is a friend of Billy Jack ".

If injected into mice, within 2 hours the venom begins a process known as mesangiolysis ( the degeneration and death of cells that line the inner layer of the glomerulus and regulate glomerular filtration in the kidney ).

If this pathway can be activated in tumor cells using Agkistrodon venom, then theoretically, the proteins in the venom could be used to target and kill cancerous cells.

If the mixing test indicates an inhibitor, diagnosis of a lupus anticoagulant is then confirmed with phospholipid-sensitive functional clotting testing, such as the dilute Russell's viper venom time, or the Kaolin clotting time.

If too much parasite venom was absorbed by the host's system it would cause hideous abnormalities, as seen with Terrorsmith.

If I droop down mine head, and shoot forth venom, then is rapture of the earth, and I and the earth are one.

If the circumstances are faced frankly it is not reasonable to expect this to be true.

If his dancers are sometimes made to look as if they might be creatures from Mars, this is consistent with his intention of placing them in the orbit of another world, a world in which they are freed of their pedestrian identities.

If a work is divided into several large segments, a last-minute drawing of random numbers may determine the order of the segments for any particular performance.

If they avoid the use of the pungent, outlawed four-letter word it is because it is taboo ; ;

If Wilhelm Reich is the Moses who has led them out of the Egypt of sexual slavery, Dylan Thomas is the poet who offers them the Dionysian dialectic of justification for their indulgence in liquor, marijuana, sex, and jazz.

If he is the child of nothingness, if he is the predestined victim of an age of atomic wars, then he will consult only his own organic needs and go beyond good and evil.

If it is an honest feeling, then why should she not yield to it??

If he thus achieves a lyrical, dreamlike, drugged intensity, he pays the price for his indulgence by producing work -- Allen Ginsberg's `` Howl '' is a striking example of this tendency -- that is disoriented, Dionysian but without depth and without Apollonian control.

If love reflects the nature of man, as Ortega Y Gasset believes, if the person in love betrays decisively what he is by his behavior in love, then the writers of the beat generation are creating a new literary genre.

If he is good, he may not be legal ; ;

If the man on the sidewalk is surprised at this question, it has served as an exclamation.

If the existent form is to be retained new factors that reinforce it must be introduced into the situation.

If we remove ourselves for a moment from our time and our infatuation with mental disease, isn't there something absurd about a hero in a novel who is defeated by his infantile neurosis??

If many of the characters in contemporary novels appear to be the bloodless relations of characters in a case history it is because the novelist is often forgetful today that those things that we call character manifest themselves in surface behavior, that the ego is still the executive agency of personality, and that all we know of personality must be discerned through the ego.

If he is a traditionalist, he is an eclectic traditionalist.

If our sincerity is granted, and it is granted, the discrepancy can only be explained by the fact that we have come to believe hearsay and legend about ourselves in preference to an understanding gained by earnest self-examination.

If to be innocent is to be helpless, then I had been -- as are we all -- helpless at the start.

" If there is any doubt as to whether the sick person has reached the use of reason, or is dangerously ill, or is dead, this sacrament is to be administered ".

If all three are administered immediately one after another, the normal order of administration is: first Penance then Anointing, then Viaticum.

If repeated impulses are administered ( two per second or 2 Hz ), it is normal for CMAP amplitudes to become smaller as the acetylcholine in the motor end plate is depleted.

If D2-blocking drugs are administered the blocked dopamine spills over to the D1 receptors.

If the Chief Justice is ill or incapacitated, the oath is usually administered by the next senior member of the Supreme Court.

If a duke took power from his nobles, the state would have to be administered bureaucratically by appointed officials.

If administered early in the pregnancy, methotrexate terminates the growth of the developing embryo ; this may cause an abortion, or the tissue may then be either resorbed by the woman's body or pass with a menstrual period.

If the dying person cannot take solid food, the Eucharist may be administered in the " species " of wine alone, since the bread and wine are the Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity of Christ.

If the drug pilocarpine is administered, the pupils will constrict and accommodation is increased due to the parasympathetic action on the circular muscle fibers, conversely, atropine will cause paralysis of accommodation ( cycloplegia ) and dilation of the pupil.

If, however, a convert comes from a Christian confession that baptizes in the name of Jesus ( such as Oneness Pentecostals ), from one which practices an invalid, non-Trinitarian baptism ( such as Mormons or Jehovah's Witnesses ) or from one that does not practice baptism at all ( such as Quakers or The Salvation Army ), baptism is a prerequisite for chrismation-an initiate must always be validly baptized into the death of Jesus in the name of the Holy Trinity before any further holy mysteries or sacraments of initiation can be administered.

If this is still insufficient, then intracavernosal injections of phenylephrine are administered.

If the patient is stable, adenosine may be administered first, as the medicine performs a sort of " chemical cardioversion " and may stabilize the heart and let it resume normal function on its own without using electricity.

If the person remains in shock after initial resuscitation packed red blood cells should be administered to keep the hemoglobin greater than 100 gms / l.

If it is doubtful whether a person has received one of the three sacraments in question, the sacrament may be administered conditionally, but not, properly speaking, repeated.

If both forms of the test were administered to a number of people, differences between scores on form A and form B may be due to errors in measurement only.

If agitation occurs, different antipsychotics can be administered to conclude its outbreak.

* If applied scrupulously, originalism requires the country either to continually reratify the Constitution in order to retain contemporary standards for tests such as " cruel and unusual punishment " or " unreasonable searches and seizures ," or to change the language to specifically state that these tests shall be administered according to the standards of the society administering the test.

If only one enantiomer is administered to a human subject, both forms may be found later in the blood serum.

If this is not the case ,, the patient is generally administered a proton pump inhibitor ( e. g. omeprazole ), given blood transfusions ( if the level of hemoglobin is extremely low, that is less than 8. 0 g / dL or 4. 5 – 5. 0 mmol / L ), and kept NPO, which stands for " nil per os " ( Latin for " nothing by mouth ", or no eating or drinking ) until endoscopy can be arranged.

If unsuccessful, a combination of the aforementioned immunosuppression drugs with a mesalazine ( which may also have an anti-inflammatory effect ) may or may not be administered, depending on the patient.

If several dozen lashes were awarded, each could be administered by a fresh bosun's mate — a left-handed one could be included to assure extra painful crisscrossing of the wounds.

If someone administered first aid, the player would be back on his feet and ready to fight in a few seconds, albeit severely wounded.

If a deathblow was administered, then the player was taken away from the combat to Elysium, a small area for dead players.

If unsure, it is recommended that the child be seen by a pediatrician before treatment is administered.