What's the difference between butterfish and mucous?
Butterfish
Definition:
(n.) A name given to several different fishes, in allusion to their slippery coating of mucus, as the Stromateus triacanthus of the Atlantic coast, the Epinephelus punctatus of the southern coast, the rock eel, and the kelpfish of New Zealand.
Example Sentences:
(1) While we sat on the shore eating our lunch we watched the otter tucking into a butterfish with the same enthusiasm – and completely oblivious to our presence.
(2) In the butterfish, cod and rockling, all the oxygen absorbed by the skin is consumed by the skin tissue itself, whereas in the other species there is a net inward transcutaneous oxygen flux.
(3) were investigated in seven species of teleosts in normoxic sea water: butterfish (Pholis gunnellus L.), cod (Gadus morhua L.), five-bearded rockling (Ciliata mustela L), shanny (Blennius pholis L.), flounder (Platichthys flesus L.), sole (Solea solea L.) and eel (Anguilla anguilla L.).
(4) Although MPS-II possessed many radiologic similarities to MPS-I, the former presented certain characteristic features such as butterfish-like vertebra, and small triangular malformation of carpal bones and tarsal scaphoid etc.
(5) Bacterial decomposition of butterfish and smelts in small sealed jars containing seawater and other solutions, for periods ranging from 65 to 205 days, results in a large increase in concentrations of dissolved bicarbonate, carbonate, and ammonia (plus volatile amines).
Mucous
Definition:
(a.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling, mucus; slimy, ropy, or stringy, and lubricous; as, a mucous substance.
(a.) Secreting a slimy or mucigenous substance; as, the mucous membrane.
Example Sentences:
(1) Ten milliliters of the solution inappropriately came into contact with nasal mucous membranes, causing excessive drug absorption.
(2) These data suggest that basophilic cell function in the superficial mucous layer in the nose is of greater significance in the development of nasal symptoms in response to nasal allergy than either mucociliary activity or nasal mucosal hypersensitivity to histamine.
(3) Light microscopy of both apneics and snorers revealed mucous gland hypertrophy with ductal dilation and focal squamous metaplasia, disruption of muscle bundles by infiltrating mucous glands, focal atrophy of muscle fibers, and extensive edema of the lamina propria with vascular dilation.
(4) The activity of GP sulfotransferase was mainly distributed in the microsomal fraction, and was proportional to the incubation time, substrate (mucous GP) concentration and [35S]-PAPS concentration.
(5) In males, the percentage of animals having mucous cells increased with sexual maturation and attained 100 per cent at age six months.
(6) Chronic bronchitis, mucous hypersecretion, and liver disease, as well as a family history of emphysema, are associated conditions.
(7) The histological changes by light and electron microscopy in these patients demonstrates the metaplastic changes of the basal cell of the mucosa differentiating into mucous and keratin cells.
(8) Confirmatory tests of sinus disease are transillumination (useful in adolescents if interpretation is confined to the extremes--normal or absent); radiographic findings of opacification, mucous membrane thickening, or an air-fluid level; and sinus aspiration (indicated for severe pain, clinical failures, or complicated disease).
(9) In 40 patients with insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus, the number of gastrin cells in the mucous membrane of the antrum of the stomach was measured by immunohistochemistry according to the method of L. Sternberger.
(10) Incorporation of [2-14C] sodium acetate into 7-dehydrocholesterol ketoderivative, cholesta-4,7-dien-3-on, was studied in the tissues of the rat stomach secretory and esophageal parts and in the mucous and serous membranes of the small intestine.
(11) Microscopic examination showed that the tumor was an invasive papillary growth with numerous signet-ring cells and mucous production.
(12) As to the tissular and cellular levels, the possibility of a regulation of the enzymatic and transport systems of the microvilli by means of substrates contained in the mucous membrane of the small intestine and endogenous substances (permein and antipermein) was evinced.
(13) In the stationary group the bronchograms showed only a mild mucous reaction, and peripheral filling was generally good.
(14) Cellular mucus of the mucous cells from gastric epithelium and surface mucus from gastric mucosa were obtained by perfusion in vivo of Ghosh-Lai rat stomachs with 2 M NaCl.
(15) We concluded that abdominal irradiation caused the invasion of E. cloacae from the mucous membrane of the intestine and inhibited formation of lung metastases.
(16) Bronchoscopy may then be carried out in order to study the area surrounding the diverticular orifice more closely, and to establish the condition of its mucous lining.
(17) In the cells of the cardiac region (which occupy 65% of the stomach) at least three types of mucous droplet are present.
(18) The study using the urease test on mucous biopsies from the antral gastric part and from the duodenum of patients with chronic opisthorchiasis with endoscopic evidence of antral gastritis and gastroduodenitis, and from noninvaded patients with gastritis and duodenitis, some of them with the gastric or duodenal ulcers showed that the test was positive.
(19) A case of mucous metaplasia of mesothelium in an 80 year old woman is described.
(20) Since vitamin A is involved in the promotion of mucous-secreting cells, the premature neonate may be at greater risk than the term infant for diseases involving the mucosal epithelium, including necrotizing enterocolitis.