What's the difference between beetle and palpator?
Beetle
Definition:
(v. t.) A heavy mallet, used to drive wedges, beat pavements, etc.
(v. t.) A machine in which fabrics are subjected to a hammering process while passing over rollers, as in cotton mills; -- called also beetling machine.
(v. t.) To beat with a heavy mallet.
(v. t.) To finish by subjecting to a hammering process in a beetle or beetling machine; as, to beetle cotton goods.
(v. t.) Any insect of the order Coleoptera, having four wings, the outer pair being stiff cases for covering the others when they are folded up. See Coleoptera.
(v. i.) To extend over and beyond the base or support; to overhang; to jut.
Example Sentences:
(1) John Hansen, president of the Nebraska Farmers Union, said the landowners his group represents "are obviously not happy" that the beetles are being removed.
(2) But pipeline opponents say that by moving beetles from the Nebraska sandhills and mowing miles of grass where the insects once lived, TransCanada has illegally begun construction on the project.
(3) Permethrin (0.5%) was applied to individual Lutz spruce, Picea x lutzii Little, to protect them from attack by spruce beetles, Dendroctonus rufipennis (Kirby).
(4) This paper is the first published report of vesicular dermatitis due to blister beetles of the family Meloidae in Panamá.
(5) Cutting up carcasses is the simpler of the two techniques but there are circumstances in which beetle digestion would be advantageous.
(6) After removal of a transverse strip of ventral thorax from the beetle, Tenebrio molitor, interaction occurred between epidermis posterior to the mesothoracic leg and that anterior to the metathoracic leg.
(7) The 12 additional arthropod species recorded from the woodland mice consisted of 1 nidicolous beetle, Leptinus orientamericanus; 1 bot, Cuterebra fontinella; 3 fleas, Ctenophthalmus pseudagyrtes, Orchopeas leucopus and Peromyscopsylla scotti; 1 tick, Dermacentor variabilis; 2 mesostigmatid mites, Androlaelaps fahrenholzi and Ornithonyssus bacoti; 3 chiggers, Comatacarus americanus, Euschoengastia peromysci, and Leptotrombidium peromysci; and 1 undescribed pygmephorid mite of the genus Pygmephorus.
(8) A hypertrehalosemic neuropeptide from the corpora cardiac of the two tenebrionid beetle species, Tenebrio molitor and Zophobas rugipes, was purified by high performance liquid chromatography, and its sequence determined by pulsed-liquid phase sequencing employing Edman degradation after deblocking enzymatically the N-terminal pyroglutamate residue.
(9) Shortly after gamma irradiation, flour beetles exhibited a decline in resistance to oxygen toxicity.
(10) He is the Princess Di of the political world …" Or of Margaret Thatcher 's trusty bulldog Bernard Ingham: "Brick-red of face, beetling of brow, seemingly built to withstand hurricanes, Sir Bernard resembled a half-timbered bomb shelter."
(11) One-way deformation tests using sera prepared against known beetle and tabanid spiroplasmas showed each of the above strains to be unique.
(12) Case records of 21 horses with acute illness following ingestion of hay containing dead striped blister beetles (Epicauta spp) were selected for review.
(13) This report reexamines experimentally the problem of competitive indeterminacy in mixed-species populations of the flour beetles, Tribolium confusum and T. castaneum.
(14) Outside, the ancient trees provide a habitat for several rare insect species, including the cobweb beetle, and many bats, such as the noctule, that like to eat them.
(15) However the plants are then attacked by pollen beetles, necessitating a further use of pyrethroids.
(16) The present analysis outlines how the shape of motoneurons which persist through metamorphosis in the beetle Tenebrio molitor is regulated by cellular interactions.
(17) Worse, pests like the berry borer beetle and leaf rust fungus are flourishing as the world warms.
(18) Nesting birds were already protected, as were fenced-off areas for insects – 112 spider and 68 beetle species have been identified at Tempelhof.
(19) In staphyliniformic beetles, as in other Coleoptera, the number of type III and V neurosecretory cells is equal to 4.
(20) Glossopharyngeal nerve stimulation of the bullfrog, Rana catesbeiana, revealed responsiveness to low levels of cantharidin (1.3 x 10(-6) M), providing a first demonstration of neural gustatory sensitivity of an animal to this defensive chemical from blister beetles (Meloidae).
Palpator
Definition:
(n.) One of a family of clavicorn beetles, including those which have very long maxillary palpi.
Example Sentences:
(1) Interexaminer reliability studies indicate that a standard method of motion palpation is quite feasible and accurate.
(2) on, whereas palpation is only possible upward of 15 mm.
(3) The Canadian Home Fitness Test is a self-administered procedure in which the participant steps at an age- and sex-specific rhythm controlled by recorded music, then palpates the pulse immediately following activity.
(4) Palpation and puncture are used for diagnosis of some tumors.
(5) A through pancreatic mobilization and palpation was performed during operation.
(6) These results are superior even to those of surgeons with 30 years of experience specializing in the breast (86.9%, 85.3%, and 85.8%), especially when tumors cannot be palpated.
(7) It is of mechanical or mixed type, accompanied by local, pseudo-inflammatory signs being either apparent or discrete, very elective and very sharp pain upon palpation of a very limited area of a condyle or a tibial plate, with hyperfixation located through scintigraphy with technetium 99m polyphosphates, and regressing either spontaneously, or more quickly under treatment, of which thyrocalcitone is the essential part, without undergoing a phase of intense loco-regional demineralization.
(8) Both sonography and palpation failed to identify their presence in 4 tests.
(9) The data obtained by intraatrial palpation were compared with the data obtained by TEE.
(10) An intra-abdominal abscess was diagnosed in a 7-year-old mare by palpation per rectum and from abnormal clinicopathologic findings.
(11) Preoperatively, blood chemistry studies were done in addition to palpation of the abdomen.
(12) Peritoneography was performed in 122 patients clinically suspected of hernia without definite palpation findings.
(13) Treatment consisted of cholecystectomy also in the four patients in whom no stones could be palpated in the gallbladder.
(14) However its depth and tense, cystic feeling on palpation, were considered somewhat unusual.
(15) TAU approach showed a significant inferiority (p less than 0.02) and TVU a significant superiority (p less than 0.08) in comparison to palpation.
(16) A 65-year-old woman experienced transient paralysis of the left arm immediately after palpation of the right carotid artery; at surgery, a friable, atherosclerotic plaque was removed from the bifurcation of the artery.
(17) Four (40%) demonstrated an objective response to treatment: Three patients had a decrease in tumor mass on computed tomography (CT) scan, and one patient had a reduction in liver size as measured by palpation.
(18) The ultrasonic diagnosis as a method of recognising postoperative subprosthetical breast pathological changes (respectively of simulated tumor recidivs and implanted breast prosthesis) located near the thorax and therefore difficult to detect by external palpation and mammography examination have been described in a follow-up study, and further possibilities of application suggested.
(19) The effect of anti-parkinson drugs on reserpine-induced rigidity was examined using a technique which measured rigidity by hind limb palpation.
(20) Standardized headache history; plain film and dynamic spinal X rays; motion palpation; and pressure algometry.