(n.) Any species of fly of the genus Musca that deposits its eggs or young larvae (called flyblows and maggots) upon meat or other animal products.
Example Sentences:
(1) Neuropeptides identified with a radioimmunoassay specific for the C-terminus of Met5-enkephalin-Arg6-Phe7 (YGGFMRF) have been extracted from nervous tissues of the blowfly Calliphora vomitoria and also from whole flies.
(2) Immunocytochemistry indicated that GAL-LI was present in the nervous system of the blowfly.
(3) Functions for the various cellular components of the blowfly chemoreceptor sensillum are offered.
(4) Spectral and polarization sensitivities of blowfly R1-6 photoreceptor cells were measured by intracellular recordings in cells which differed in visual pigment content.
(5) In the blowfly the cell bodies of these neurons are located at the anterior base of the medulla.
(6) Also acetylcolletotrichin had no detectable effect on the oxidative activity of blowfly flight-muscle mitochondria and was not very effective with heart mitochondria.
(7) The presence of glycosphingolipids in the pupae of the blowfly, Calliphora vicina, was established.
(8) These results indicate that in a cell-free system from blowfly salivary glands, 5-methyltryptamine, through a GTP-dependent mechanism, directly activates a phospholipase C which mediates phosphoinositide hydrolysis.
(9) When captive blowflies were exposed first to dog faeces containing proglottids of T. hydatigena and then to cooked meat, 100% of pigs fed on this meat became infected.
(10) The antisera against DA and TH specifically labeled the same neurons in the blowflies.
(11) In blowflies it was detected mainly in eggs and pupae.
(12) A macromolecule with high affinity for the ecdysteroid analogue ponasterone A was isolated from nuclei of larvae of the blowfly Calliphora vicina.
(13) The structure of mechanoreceptors at the base of labellar taste hairs of the blowfly Phaenicia serricata were examined in stimulated and unstimulated conditions (i.e.
(14) Bait trapping at upland sites in England and Wales, mainly at 400-700 m altitude, showed that Calliphora vomitoria L. usually outnumbered all other blowflies.
(15) RAST inhibition demonstrated immunologic cross-reactivity between the life stages of T. molitor and also between T. molitor and A. diaperinus, as well as slight cross-reactivity with blowfly.
(16) Arylphorin was purified from larvae of the blowfly Calliphora vicina and studied in its oligomeric form and after dissociation at pH 9.6 into native subunits.
(17) Freezing was lethal in the eggs, larvae, pupae and adults of the blowflies Calliphora vicina R-D. and Calliphora vomitoria (L.), but varying degrees of supercooling were found.
(18) Starting from poly(A)-containing RNA prepared from the fat body of larvae of the blowfly Calliphora vicina, we have purified an mRNA coding for the protein calliphorin, which is a major blowfly protein accounting for approximately 9% of the total poly(A)-containing mRNA activity in the fat body of 5-days-old larvae, as demonstrated by translation in vitro.
(19) In particular the contrast of the relative importance of each mechanism in each of the major ectoparasitic pests of economic importance (sheep blowflies, mosquitoes and ticks) is discussed.
(20) It was concluded that if organophosphate resistant blowfly were present, the length of protection might be dosage related and that blowfly strike in sheep was almost equally controlled by Cyromazine and Propetamphos.
Fly
Definition:
(v. i.) To move in or pass thorugh the air with wings, as a bird.
(v. i.) To move through the air or before the wind; esp., to pass or be driven rapidly through the air by any impulse.
(v. i.) To float, wave, or rise in the air, as sparks or a flag.
(v. i.) To move or pass swiftly; to hasten away; to circulate rapidly; as, a ship flies on the deep; a top flies around; rumor flies.
(v. i.) To run from danger; to attempt to escape; to flee; as, an enemy or a coward flies. See Note under Flee.
(v. i.) To move suddenly, or with violence; to do an act suddenly or swiftly; -- usually with a qualifying word; as, a door flies open; a bomb flies apart.
(v. t.) To cause to fly or to float in the air, as a bird, a kite, a flag, etc.
(v. t.) To fly or flee from; to shun; to avoid.
(v. t.) To hunt with a hawk.
(v. i.) Any winged insect; esp., one with transparent wings; as, the Spanish fly; firefly; gall fly; dragon fly.
(v. i.) Any dipterous insect; as, the house fly; flesh fly; black fly. See Diptera, and Illust. in Append.
(v. i.) A hook dressed in imitation of a fly, -- used for fishing.
(v. i.) A familiar spirit; a witch's attendant.
(v. i.) A parasite.
(v. i.) A kind of light carriage for rapid transit, plying for hire and usually drawn by one horse.
(v. i.) The length of an extended flag from its staff; sometimes, the length from the "union" to the extreme end.
(v. i.) The part of a vane pointing the direction from which the wind blows.
(v. i.) That part of a compass on which the points are marked; the compass card.
(v. i.) Two or more vanes set on a revolving axis, to act as a fanner, or to equalize or impede the motion of machinery by the resistance of the air, as in the striking part of a clock.
(v. i.) A heavy wheel, or cross arms with weights at the ends on a revolving axis, to regulate or equalize the motion of machinery by means of its inertia, where the power communicated, or the resistance to be overcome, is variable, as in the steam engine or the coining press. See Fly wheel (below).
(v. i.) The piece hinged to the needle, which holds the engaged loop in position while the needle is penetrating another loop; a latch.
(v. i.) The pair of arms revolving around the bobbin, in a spinning wheel or spinning frame, to twist the yarn.
(v. i.) A shuttle driven through the shed by a blow or jerk.
(v. i.) Formerly, the person who took the printed sheets from the press.
(v. i.) A vibrating frame with fingers, attached to a power to a power printing press for doing the same work.
(v. i.) The outer canvas of a tent with double top, usually drawn over the ridgepole, but so extended as to touch the roof of the tent at no other place.
(v. i.) One of the upper screens of a stage in a theater.
(v. i.) The fore flap of a bootee; also, a lap on trousers, overcoats, etc., to conceal a row of buttons.
(v. i.) A batted ball that flies to a considerable distance, usually high in the air; also, the flight of a ball so struck; as, it was caught on the fly.
(1) Moments later, explosive charges blasted free two tungsten blocks, to shift the balance of the probe so it could fly itself to a prearranged landing spot .
(2) Only two aviators were permanently removed from flying duties due to glaucoma.
(3) This reduction is produced by medial displacement of the cerci, a movement the animal performs naturally during flying.
(4) In October, an episode of South Park saw the whole town go gluten-free (the stuff, it was discovered, made one’s penis fly off).
(5) As yet there is no evidence that the occurrence of savanna flies in the rain forest zone of Liberia was of epidemiological significance.
(6) Aircraft pilots Facebook Twitter Pinterest ‘Getting paid to have your head in the clouds.’ Photograph: CTC Wings Includes: Flight engineers and flying instructors Average pay before tax: £90,146 Pay range: £66,178 (25th percentile) to £97,598 (60th percentile).
(7) Discovery of this vectorhost-parasite system in the Americas, and the localization of promastigote flagellates (leptomonads) in the hindgut of the vector, should assist in clarifying interpretative problems associated with infection of wild-caught flies in studies on leishmaniasis in the Americas and elsewhere.
(8) Meanwhile, in the US, Ellen DeGeneres , who is 56 and came out in the 90s, is still flying the lesbian flag on TV.
(9) It flies in the face of everything I believe and everything I stand for.” On a day of tension within the party, the former Labour leader Ed Miliband called for activists to stop abusing opposition MPs who were backing airstrikes.
(10) An international team led by Luciano Iess at the Sapienza University in Rome inferred the existence of the ocean after taking a series of exquisite measurements made during three fly-bys between April 2010 and May 2012, which brought the Cassini spacecraft within 100km of the surface of Enceladus.
(11) Histopathology examination from the margin of the ulcerative area confirmed the diagnosis of basal cell carcinoma, which was infested secondarily with larvae of flies.
(12) All the flies were collected from a breeding site inside an abandoned cement building.
(13) "There were around 50 attackers, heavily armed in three vehicles, and they were flying the Shebab flag," Maisori added, speaking from the town, where several buildings including hotels, restaurants, banks and government offices were razed to the ground.
(14) • Gaddafi's many eccentricities, including phobias about flying over water and staying above ground floor level.
(15) Police told him he had been placed on the US no-fly list, although he had never in his life been accused of breaking any law.
(16) Flies were observed to lack strong host specificity.
(17) It encodes a homeobox gene closely related to the developmentally regulated homeotic genes of flies and mammals.
(18) Photograph: Geektime The same developer’s Red Bouncing Ball Spikes game has also been doing well on the App Store, although as yet Flying Cyrus fever hasn’t spread to Android – the game has been installed less than 5,000 times according to its Google Play store page.
(19) "What I want to do is to fly 100% of the schedule and to remove any uncertainty.
(20) It is present throughout development and is as abundant in embryos as in larvae and adult flies.