(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.
Example Sentences:
(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.
Scutum
Definition:
(n.) An oblong shield made of boards or wickerwork covered with leather, with sometimes an iron rim; -- carried chiefly by the heavy-armed infantry.
(n.) A penthouse or awning.
(n.) The second and largest of the four parts forming the upper surface of a thoracic segment of an insect. It is preceded by the prescutum and followed by the scutellum. See the Illust. under Thorax.
(n.) One of the two lower valves of the operculum of a barnacle.
Example Sentences:
(1) 36.3% of the children had a residual or a recurrent cholesteatoma, 19.5% after open technique, 61.2% after a combined approach operation, 17% after atticoantrotomy and reconstruction of the scutum and 29.6% after a transcanal tympanoplasty.
(2) The structure of scutum, organs of gnathosoma and coxae, chaetotaxy of idiosoma and gnathosoma were used for differential diagnosis.
(3) The marine gastropods Acmaea (Collisella) limatula and Acmaea (Notoacmea) scutum respond to distant predatory starfish (i.e.
(4) The scutum "pseudotumor" appearance caused by incomplete pneumatization was seen frequently, and should not be mistaken for mastoiditis or an osteoma.
(5) A wide range of structures was used for species identification as follows: peculiarities of scutum, peritreme, anal valve, organs of gnathosoma, chaetotaxy and morphometrical characteristics and ratios.
(6) Reliable differences have been noted in the sizes of scutum, gnathosoma and its appendages in male and female nymphs of both species.
(7) Incidence of retraction pocket and recurrent cholesteatoma in the attic after surgery for middle ear cholesteatoma using the staged intact canal wall technique were investigated in 95 ears of 91 patients, all of which had various degrees of bone defect in the tympanic scutum.
(8) Here, the ultrastructure of sensory cells on the mantle tentacles of N. scutum is examined by transmission electron microscopy to determine if morphological types of sensory cells can be correlated with known sensory capabilities.
(9) Incidence of retraction troubles was higher in Types II and III, probably because these procedures were indicated in ears with large scutum defects.
(10) In D. niveus male and female nymphs differ in the length of II-III palpal joints and width of gnathosoma, in D. ushakovae in the length of scutum and its proportions, in the width of gnathosoma and hypostome and in the diameter of peritreme.
(11) However, injection of IVM, dimethylsulphoxide (vehicle for IVM) or distilled water through the articulation between the capitulum and scutum ('anterior injection'), did markedly reduce the wax coating and increased egg permeability.
(12) The dorsal part of the head can also be transformed into second thoracic structures (scutum) indicating that Antp indeed specifies the second thoracic segment.
(13) It resumes at the superior aspect of the external auditory canal (scutum) extending laterally along the external canal wall.
(14) (Exopalpiger) trianguliceps in 4-4 pairs of setae of the anal valve, shape of scutum, longer setae of alloscutum, more round peritreme, correlation between the length of peritreme longitudinal diameter and the length of longitudinal diameter of the anal ring, presence of auricles and shape of palps.
(15) Differences in linear sizes of scutum, gnathosoma and its appendages in male and female nymphs were determined that has made possible the identification of sex in hungry nymphs.
(16) Previous studies have indicated that the mantle margin of the gastropod mollusc Notoacmea scutum is sensitive to chemical, photic, and mechanical stimulation.
(17) He then named the company Aquascutum, from the Latin words aqua (water) and scutum (shield).
(18) The height of this bony plate was 1.5 to 3.0 mm and extended from the facial canal wall to the scutum.
(19) Defects of the anterior wall of the mastoid bowl, i.e., the posterior wall of the external auditory canal, were recognized in 105 ears in the first stage, 91 of which involved pathologic defects of the tympanic scutum caused by cholesteatoma.
(20) The transverse band of light scales on the anterior scutum is complete in Ae.