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Arachnid


Definition:

  • (n.) An arachnidan.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Electron microscopy has revealed that chitin from a representative selection of insect orders (plus one crustacean and one arachnid) is localized in crystallites about 2.8 nm across.
  • (2) Necrotic arachnidism was seen only in areas where populations of Tegenaria agrestis spiders were well established and did not occur where Tegenaria agrestis was absent.
  • (3) The variable sensibility of the spiders towards an equal amount of hormones allows us to confirm the occurrence of winter-diapause in this Arachnid.
  • (4) Camel Spiders Photograph: James Mccauley Focusing on the Solifugae arachnid rather than the far scarier camel-spider hybrid I first pictured, Camel Spiders is the latest film from Jim Wynorski, director of Busty Cops Go Hawaiian, The Wasp Woman and Dinocroc Vs Supergator.
  • (5) It was concluded that collagenase is a major factor in the aetiology of necrotic arachnidism.
  • (6) The geographical spread of Tegenaria agrestis spiders parallels the appearance of necrotic arachnidism in several areas.
  • (7) These intramembranous particle rows are novel structural modifications, called here 'linker' junctions, and are quite distinct from conventional tight or septate junctions found between the outer glial cells in more highly evolved arthropods such as the insects and arachnids.
  • (8) His Spider design is particularly fun, coming from "the interpretation of the ultimate heavy metal instrument through the lens of arachnids".
  • (9) There is an association of cytoskeletal components with these septate, linker, and tight junctions; the role of the cytoskeleton in tight junctions, which can be seen by freeze fracture to be based on simple ridges in insects or a more complex network of them in arachnids, may also be important in the regulation of paracellular permeability.
  • (10) Cross says that these arachnids, also known as vampire spiders, “love” feeding on human blood as it gives them an odour that renders them sexually attractive to potential mates.
  • (11) Guanine is the major nitrogenous waste product in arachnids.
  • (12) Ivermectin is a macrocyclic lactone (fermentation) product and actinomycete (Streptomyces avermitilis) that possesses an unusually broad spectrum of potent activity against several species of nematodes, arachnids, and insects that parasitize domestic animals.
  • (13) Necrotizing dermatitis, or arachnidism, is a new life-threatening syndrome of which many clinicians are unaware.
  • (14) A comparative analysis of cardiotropic activity of toxins has been studied in experiments on isolated heart of the poisonous animals from different systematic groups living on the territory of the USSR: reptiles (the venom of cobra, Vipera lebetina, Ancistrodon blomhoffi), amphibian (the venom of Bufo, Bombina, salamander), arachnids (the venom of Apis, Scolopendra, scorpion).
  • (15) Such a system is unknown in insects or crustaceans, but may be typical for arachnids.
  • (16) Similar to the heavily armoured arachnid seen in the E3 demo, it takes multiple hits to bring down, and coordinating fire from the three team members is crucial.
  • (17) Although they are very common arachnids, the scorpions (Euscorpius, sp.)
  • (18) Absorption spectra of visual screening pigments obtained in vitro with a microspectrophotometer using frozen sections are given for the insects Musca domestica, Phormia regina, Libellula luctuosa, Apis mellifera (worker honeybee only), Drosophila melanogaster (wild type only) and the arachnids Lycosa baltimoriana and Lycosa miami.
  • (19) Arachnidism can be manifested either through the skin or systemically.
  • (20) Since guanine is not only an essential constituent of vital nucleic acids, but also the main end product of nitrogenous waste excretion in arachnids, it is a potential candidate for a hygienic index for mite activity in house dust.

Bug


Definition:

  • (n.) A bugbear; anything which terrifies.
  • (n.) A general name applied to various insects belonging to the Hemiptera; as, the squash bug; the chinch bug, etc.
  • (n.) An insect of the genus Cimex, especially the bedbug (C. lectularius). See Bedbug.
  • (n.) One of various species of Coleoptera; as, the ladybug; potato bug, etc.; loosely, any beetle.
  • (n.) One of certain kinds of Crustacea; as, the sow bug; pill bug; bait bug; salve bug, etc.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The winter vomiting bug norovirus, which also puts strain on the NHS every winter because it leads to wards having to close, has not yet become a major problem, the latest evidence indicates.
  • (2) Cruddas, who has several BNP councillors in his Barking constituency, told MPs in the House of Commons: "What's been uncovered in the internal workings of the BNP appears to be systematic illegality in terms of data protection, bugging, money laundering, theft and the operation of the Political Parties Elections and Referendums Act 2000."
  • (3) Data from 1985 and 1986 showed that 85.6% of the bugs captured inside houses were notified by the population, which confirms that the best way to maintain the epidemiologic surveillance of Chagas' disease by the mobilization of local communities for effective participation in vector surveillance.
  • (4) The diplomatic bag must only contain articles for official use (not kidnapped opposition politicians ), and the collection of information can only be carried out by "lawful means" (not by bugging the state department ).
  • (5) The number of people affected by an outbreak of the winter vomiting bug could have passed 1 million, the Health Protection Agency has reported.
  • (6) The BUG increases 3.9-fold in DNA content from day 0 (day of birth) to day 6 postnatally; the epithelium grows proportionately more than the mesenchyme during this period (12-fold vs. 2.3-fold).
  • (7) Informed sources in Germany said Merkel was livid about the reports that the NSA had bugged her phone and was convinced, on the basis of a German intelligence investigation, that the reports were utterly substantiated.
  • (8) The polymerase chain reaction was used to amplify the highly variable region of the kinetoplast minicircle of Trypanosoma cruzi directly in biological samples (feces of infected Triatomine bugs, blood samples of experimentally infected mice, and artificially infected human blood samples).
  • (9) At 67, Young apparently feels the strain as much as everyone: "[His] wrist bugs him, and he has to tape it when he plays," Sampedro said.
  • (10) Gordon has been doing live insect cooking demonstrations across the United States since 1998 and estimates that he’s cooked bugs for some 100,000 people.
  • (11) More than 150,000 people were struck down with the winter vomiting bug during the festive period, the latest figures suggest.
  • (12) It seemed to me that Kafka had trouble imagining a universe where Gregor the Bug scurried about on the street, doing all kinds of wild things.
  • (13) Early stages of differentiation of the oocytes and nurse cells are comparatively studied in the polytrophic ovarioles in larvae, pupae and imago of the butterfly Laspeyresia pomonella and in the telotrophic ovarioles in larvae and imago of the bug Eurigaster integriceps.
  • (14) A good example of this is the Innovative Medicines Initiative's new drugs for bad bugs programme .
  • (15) Indeed, diglycerides constitute the largest neutral lipid fraction in the hemolymph of silkmoths, locusts, cockroaches, bugs, etc.
  • (16) Television's natural instinct was now simply to go on and on, to consume the infinite time stretching out in front of it, like those cartoons where Bugs Bunny is frantically laying down railway track so the train he is on can keep moving.
  • (17) But I've changed my mind – I think the Olympic bug might have caught on.
  • (18) And Gerry Adams of Sinn Fein has been bugged, of course.
  • (19) The information was fed into a DNA synthesizer, which produced short strands of the bug's DNA.
  • (20) Using this method, far more bugs can be used than in conventional xenodiagnosis increasing the likelyhood of detecting at least one infected T. infestans.

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