What's the difference between biscutate and buckler?
Biscutate
Definition:
(a.) Resembling two bucklers placed side by side.
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Buckler
Definition:
(n.) A kind of shield, of various shapes and sizes, worn on one of the arms (usually the left) for protecting the front of the body.
(n.) One of the large, bony, external plates found on many ganoid fishes.
(n.) The anterior segment of the shell of trilobites.
(n.) A block of wood or plate of iron made to fit a hawse hole, or the circular opening in a half-port, to prevent water from entering when the vessel pitches.
(v. t.) To shield; to defend.
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(1) The two cases are from a six-generation family with an autosomal dominant corneal dystrophy resembling Reis-Bucklers' dystrophy.
(2) At first I think the plant might be a holly fern or a rigid buckler fern because of its stiff bearing out of mossy limestone rocks.
(3) The Tanner and Whitehouse method showed better repeatability than the Greulich and Pyle atlas or the Buckler handbook when a sample of the radiographs were assessed twice by the same observer.
(4) The results showed that when a portion of 2C was present, the primary cleavage by the 3C protease was between 2C and 3A, and the cleavage site was QG, as predicted by J. I. Cohen, J. R. Ticehurst, R. H. Purcell, A. Buckler-White, and B. M. Baroudy, J. Virol.
(5) We have mapped a site within exon 1 of the murine c-myc gene that forms a variety of complexes with nuclear proteins derived from the murine WEHI 231 B-lymphoma cell line in exponential growth that are altered following treatment with phorbol ester, when transcription of this gene is reduced [Levine, R.A., McCormack, J.E., Buckler, A.J.
(6) Buckler, Charles E. (National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Bethesda, Md.