What's the difference between amphistomous and sucker?

Amphistomous


Definition:

  • (a.) Having a sucker at each extremity, as certain entozoa, by means of which they adhere.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Of the 55 specimens examined alive in London, 10 were infected with amphistome and schistosome larvae, 9 with amphistome larvae and the remainder were uninfected.
  • (2) Such changes could be intrinsically programmed for the cellular differentiation and organogenesis in larval amphistomes.
  • (3) The lymph system of three amphistome parasites from buffaloes, Gigantocotyle explanatum, Gastrothylax crumenifer and Srivastavaia indica was studied using light microscope histochemistry and electron microscopy.
  • (4) The absence of mitochondria and enzymes associated with active transport suggests that the amphistome tegument may be mainly specialized for protection of the worm against mechanical and chemical conditions prevailing in the rumen.
  • (5) Three amphistomous species, Paramphistomum gotio Fukui, 1922; Paramphistomum microbothrium Fischoeder, 1901 and Carmyerius gregarius (Looss, 1896) have been found as a result of the investigation of stomach flukes of buffalo in Egypt.
  • (6) Thus, it is suggested that the presence of the amphistome infection may have a suppressive effect on the immune system of the snail, thereby allowing S. bovis to develop.
  • (7) Parasites encountered included Schistosoma haematobium, S. bovis, Paramphistomum microbothrium, another amphistome probably belonging to the group which infect amphibians, Echinostoma revolutum, another echinostome (probably Echinoparyphium sp.
  • (8) This zone, which is particularly thick in the amphistomes, is traversed by trabeculae and extensions of underlying parenchymal cells which usually contain mitochondria and lysosomes.
  • (9) In the rumen amphistome the components reach their maximum level only once a year, whereas in the liver amphistome, more than one peak is observed in a year.
  • (10) The cercariae, amphistome, leave soon the rediae to achieve their development at the top of the hepatopancreas of the mollusc.
  • (11) The eight species of cercariae comprise 3 furcocercous cercariae, 2 amphistome cercariae, one echinostome cercaria and 2 xiphidiocercariae.
  • (12) However, malate dehydrogenase enables a much clearer differentiation between the enzyme activity of the schistosome and that of the amphistome.
  • (13) Biochemical components, glycogen, protein, nucleic acids and lipid fractions were analysed every month from January to December 1986, in the liver and rumen amphistomes Gigantocotyle explanatum and Gastrothylax crumenifer, respectively.
  • (14) In the three species of amphistome studied, the lymph system appears to function in storage and mobilization of amino acids and possibly lipids.
  • (15) Habitat does not appear to influence the protein content of parasites, however, the effect of host variation was evident in the pouched amphistome G. crumenifer.
  • (16) These findings and a previous field observation that infection of B. truncatus with amphistome larvae is not uncommon indicate that B. truncatus is an intermediate host of P. cervi in Iraq.
  • (17) Immature and mature stages of the sheep amphistome Cotylophoron cotylophorum have been analysed histochemically for their lipids.

Sucker


Definition:

  • (n.) One who, or that which, sucks; esp., one of the organs by which certain animals, as the octopus and remora, adhere to other bodies.
  • (n.) A suckling; a sucking animal.
  • (n.) The embolus, or bucket, of a pump; also, the valve of a pump basket.
  • (n.) A pipe through which anything is drawn.
  • (n.) A small piece of leather, usually round, having a string attached to the center, which, when saturated with water and pressed upon a stone or other body having a smooth surface, adheres, by reason of the atmospheric pressure, with such force as to enable a considerable weight to be thus lifted by the string; -- used by children as a plaything.
  • (n.) A shoot from the roots or lower part of the stem of a plant; -- so called, perhaps, from diverting nourishment from the body of the plant.
  • (n.) Any one of numerous species of North American fresh-water cyprinoid fishes of the family Catostomidae; so called because the lips are protrusile. The flesh is coarse, and they are of little value as food. The most common species of the Eastern United States are the northern sucker (Catostomus Commersoni), the white sucker (C. teres), the hog sucker (C. nigricans), and the chub, or sweet sucker (Erimyzon sucetta). Some of the large Western species are called buffalo fish, red horse, black horse, and suckerel.
  • (n.) The remora.
  • (n.) The lumpfish.
  • (n.) The hagfish, or myxine.
  • (n.) A California food fish (Menticirrus undulatus) closely allied to the kingfish (a); -- called also bagre.
  • (n.) A parasite; a sponger. See def. 6, above.
  • (n.) A hard drinker; a soaker.
  • (n.) A greenhorn; one easily gulled.
  • (n.) A nickname applied to a native of Illinois.
  • (v. t.) To strip off the suckers or shoots from; to deprive of suckers; as, to sucker maize.
  • (v. i.) To form suckers; as, corn suckers abundantly.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The papillae on the oral sucker were more abundant than those elsewhere.
  • (2) The sucker, covered with basal lamina, has a constant volume; its layer of muscles resists deformation and supports the stability of the arch.
  • (3) Lesions associated with Philometroides huronensis in the white sucker (Catostomus commersoni) of southern Ontario occurred during the spring (April-June) and were related to the development and release of first-stage larvae from the gravid nematode.
  • (4) Except for the suckers and excretory pores, the whole body surface of the metacercariae and the juveniles are covered with posteriorly pointing tegumental spines which are relatively denser in the forebody than in the hindbody.
  • (5) The event proper starts at 20.00, I'm still in the office and so, bearing in mind the traffic, expect this sucker to start moving at 19.30.
  • (6) For recording ECG in precardial leads sucker electrodes which have a limited application and short service life are employed most often.
  • (7) Anatomical components of afferent innervation in the rim of the octopus sucker are described.
  • (8) The new species differs from E. knoepffleri Combes, 1965 by greater sizes of the disc, median and marginal hooks and anterior suckers.
  • (9) As differentiation continued, rostellar hooks were formed by enlargement of single large (T1) microtriches, and normal spined microtriches were produced on the sucker region.
  • (10) Therefore, the Mesometridae which always have just a single sucker (monostomatous) have selected a new kind of compensatory adhesive structure.
  • (11) The number of the small dome-shaped papillae with a pit was about 30 around the oral sucker and that of the small ones with a smooth surface varied from 9 to 13 around the ventral sucker.
  • (12) To illustrate particular patterns of apical root resorption in primary maxillary central incisors of digital suckers, the radiographs of patients in a private pedodontic practice were evaluated.
  • (13) Six stages in development are distinguished: the 'lung form' (stage 1), attaining maximum numbers on day 5 post-infection; the 'closed-gut form' (stage 2) on day 14, characterized by the union of the gut caeca behind the ventral sucker; 'organogeny' (stage 3) on day 17, the male possessing one testis and a gynaecophoric canal and the female a narrow uterus; 'gametogeny' (stage 4) on day 26, with pairing, the male having four fully developed testes and the female an ovary; 'egg-shell formation' (stage 5) on day 35; 'oviposition' (stage 6) on day 37, with the female showing uterine eggs.
  • (14) White suckers, collected from lakes containing elevated levels of copper (12 micrograms liter-1) and zinc (250 micrograms liter-1), were evaluated for reproductive performance, growth and survival of the larvae, and tolerance of the larvae to waterborne copper.
  • (15) Critics who saw Budapest at the Berlin film festival, where it premiered this month, have called it "vibrant and imaginative" , "nimblefooted, witty" , and as a sucker for Anderson's stuff since his early days, I'd agree.
  • (16) ‘Nothin’ you can do about it, sucker.’ He didn’t like gettin’ hit with those punches.
  • (17) It is characterised by possessing spines at the basal margin of oral sucker; testes, postequatorial, subsymmetrical; vitellaria lateral to ovary in middle of hindbody, confluent in postovarian region and reaching to level of testes; ovary flattened; genital pore antero-lateral to acetabulum; seminal vesicle large and ejaculatory duct long.
  • (18) We are just sort of like suckers.” She goes so far as to lump centrist environmental leaders together with groups such as the Heartland Institute , which denies the existence of climate change.
  • (19) But Brief Encounter has survived such threats, because it is so well made, because Laura's voiceover narration is truly anguished and dreamy, because the music suckers all of us, and because Celia Johnson and Trevor Howard are perfect.
  • (20) At the interval it remained 1-0 so United needed to convert their chances to kill Palace off or they would be vulnerable to a sucker punch that Pardew’s side had delivered at Arsenal on Sunday .

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