What's the difference between butterfly and cremaster?
Butterfly
Definition:
(n.) A general name for the numerous species of diurnal Lepidoptera.
Example Sentences:
(1) Behind her balcony, decorated with a flourishing pothos plant and a monarch butterfly chrysalis tied to a succulent with dental floss, sits the university’s power plant.
(2) In complete contrast, allozyme loci in these butterflies are strongly heterozygous and show only frequency differences (never amounting to homozygosity of alternative alleles) between races; the amount of allozyme divergence is the same between races of H. erato and H. sara, although in color pattern the first forms marked races and the other does not.
(3) "We're on track for one of the worst years on record for UK butterflies.
(4) To explain these contentions, the history, strengths, and limits of reductionist thinking are discussed, and aspects of chaos science, such as the butterfly effect and strange attractors, are described.
(5) Computerized tomography of the brain showed a butterfly-shaped hyperdensity in the splenium of the corpus callosum, with ventricular dilatation.
(6) On returning to the courtyard you can take an optional loop through the bee and butterfly wildflower meadow – the start of the path is just behind the engine shed building.
(7) At lower concentration, "parachute" and "butterfly" structures composed of two Hc molecules and one monoclonal immunoglobin G (IgG) molecule were obtained.
(8) Alex Horne: Monsieur Butterfly is at the Pleasance Courtyard, 15-29 August JOSEPH MORPURGO Facebook Twitter Pinterest Joseph Morpurgo.
(9) There are three population clusters of domestic rabbits, namely (1) New Zealand White and a hybrid combination; (2) Spanish Common, Butterfly, Burgundy, and Californian; and (3) Spanish Giant.
(10) The soil below has been planted with flowers to attract butterflies.
(11) Butterflies and birds were already migrating northwards to the poles , he added.
(12) There had been the notorious Redlands bust in 1967, after which Jagger and Richards had been jailed for possession of cannabis and amphetamines, famously prompting William Rees-Mogg to ask: "Who breaks a butterfly on a wheel?"
(13) Subsequent to a critical consideration of the ambiguous methods of evaluation and documentation of electronystagmograms (ENG) practised up to now, in particular the butterfly-scheme and the L-scheme, a method is being introduced unequivocally describing the vestibular reaction, on the basis of primary nystagmus functions.
(14) Anterior spina bifida or butterfly vertebral body has a well known and characteristic appearance on plain film and CT. Its appearance on magnetic resonance imaging also appears to be characteristic and should not be mistaken for more serious abnormalities.
(15) Early stages of differentiation of the oocytes and nurse cells are comparatively studied in the polytrophic ovarioles in larvae, pupae and imago of the butterfly Laspeyresia pomonella and in the telotrophic ovarioles in larvae and imago of the bug Eurigaster integriceps.
(16) For all coils except the butterfly-shaped coil, the largest electric field was at the circumference of the coils.
(17) The colonies of migrating monarch butterflies that spend the winter in a patch of fir forest in central Mexico were dramatically smaller this season than they have been since monitoring began 20 years ago, according to the annual census of the insects released this week.
(18) I ask this question myself sometimes, sipping morning coffee in my suburban backyard, watching birds and butterflies.
(19) Fielding nods enthusiastically: 'By running a butterfly sanctuary in Peru.'
(20) The relation between the quality of the optical image and the fineness of the retinal mosaic has been studied in eyes of three different optical types: the simple eyes of spiders, the superposition compound eyes of moths, and the apposition compound eyes of butterflies.
Cremaster
Definition:
(n.) A thin muscle which serves to draw up the testicle.
(n.) The apex of the last abdominal segment of an insect.
Example Sentences:
(1) The cremaster muscle microvasculature of normal Wistar-Kyoto (WKY) and spontaneously hypertensive (SHR) rats was observed at age 5--7 weeks and 16--18 weeks.
(2) To determine their pressure or flow dependence, these functional and structural parameters were studied in the developing and chronic stages of coarctation hypertension in the cremaster muscle, a normotensive skeletal muscle bed that is protected from the effects of elevated microvascular pressures.
(3) These investigations reveal that day-of-birth bilateral castration precludes cremaster muscle formation, significantly reduces CN motoneuron number, and dramatically reduces the 5-HT and SP innervation of the adult male CN.
(4) Although irreversible loss of cerebral function had been established neurologically, electoencephalographically, angiographically (carotid and vertebral angiography) and scintigraphically abdominal and cremaster reflexes could still be elicited.
(5) Acetylcholine applied to distal microvessels of the cremaster induced a dilation that ascended into feed arteries not having direct contact with acetylcholine.
(6) Intravital microscopy was used to quantitate protein leakage which resulted from the deposition of immune complexes in the vasculature of the rat cremaster muscle.
(7) This study demonstrates that intravenous epinephrine causes arterial vasospasm, but not venous constriction, in the microcirculation of the rat cremaster muscle.
(8) Blood velocity and diameter in 121 capillaries and venules in the cremaster of 13 rats were measured.
(9) Therefore, the reactivity of the cremaster muscle microcirculation of pentobarbital-anesthetized Wistar rats, intact and adrenal medullectomized, was studied using videomicroscopy.
(10) Histologic sections of the cremaster muscle and silicone rubber intravascular casts were also analyzed.
(11) High-K induced contracture of this preparation and of cremaster muscle were also depressed to 14% and to 18% of the control, respectively.
(12) Intravital microscopic observations were performed during a 20-minute perfusion of the hamster cremaster muscle with cardioplegic solutions (10 degrees C) via the femoral artery with the iliac occluded and during a subsequent 2-hour blood reperfusion period (iliac open).
(13) Some contractile, histochemical, morphological and electrophysiological properties of ferret, Mustela putorius furo, cremaster muscle have been estimated.
(14) Vascular pressures were measured in the principal (A1) arteriole and in upstream small arteries of the rat cremaster muscle to investigate vascular resistance changes associated with one-kidney, one clip Goldblatt hypertension.
(15) Collectively these studies demonstrate that the surgical modifications of the cremaster vascular supply required for in vivo microscopy significantly alter normal hemodynamics within the vascular bed.
(16) The cremaster muscle preparations seem to add usefully to the list of currently used in vitro tests, with the added advantage that a mammalian skeletal muscle model is used for simultaneous quantitative studies.
(17) These data indicate that magnesium ions: 1) bring about vasodilatation without releasing adrenergic amines, histamine, serotonin, acetylcholine, prostaglandins, or endogenous opioids; 2) are direct, potent vasodilators of intact rat cremaster muscle microvessels; 3) may have a depressive action on heart; 4) exert these microvascular and cardiac actions in low doses and 5) can produce severe hypotension and bradycardia only after i.v.
(18) The influence of flow patterns and erythrocyte concentration on the post-junctional radial position of leukocytes was studied in microvascular junctions in an isolated mesocaecum preparation and in vivo in the rat cremaster muscle.
(19) The pharmacological responses of both denervated and innervated cremaster muscle preparations from the guinea-pig have been investigated and compared.
(20) Studies were made on whether substance P-, leucine-enkephalin- and 5-hydroxytryptamine (serotonin)-like immunoreactive fibers exert a direct influence on the cremaster motoneurons of the male rat by immunocytochemistry combined with retrograde tracing at the light- and electron-microscopic levels.