(n.) The thick shell or shield which covers the back of the tortoise, or turtle, the crab, and other crustaceous animals.
Example Sentences:
(1) The pigment granules within the erythrophores are dispersed out into the dendritic processes of the cells when the isolated carapace is placed in physiological solution.
(2) Eye withdrawal in the green crab, Carcinus maenas was conditioned by pairing a mild vibration to the carapace as a conditioned stimulus (CS) with a puff of air to one of the eyes as an unconditioned stimulus (US).
(3) In both species, the carapace is heavily pigmented and during the development and translocation of basal cells from the germinal layer of the epidermis, pigment granules migrate towards the surface layers.
(4) A prawn of 15 mm carapace length could not eliminate all snails.
(5) She said: "Under the carapace of glittering, hedonistic celebrity, the ooze of a very different and more dangerous lifestyle has seeped out for all to see."
(6) Population experiments demonstrated that a prawn of 25 mm carapace length could eliminate 95% of a population of 80 snails in a 20-1 aquarium within 20 days and all snails by day 40.
(7) Moir also called for "the truth" to emerge "about the exact circumstances of his strange and lonely death" and said: "Once again, under the carapace of glittering, hedonistic celebrity, the ooze of a very different and more dangerous lifestyle has seeped out for all to see".
(8) Crustacean remains in one gut content sample included carapace fragments bearing distinctive surface features found on the smaller toxic xanthids, Actaeodes tomentosus and Pilodius areolatus.
(9) Based on the low numbers of osteoblasts and osteoclasts in dermal bone of both populations of adult desert tortoises, it appears that the peripheral carapace is relatively inert with very low levels of dermal bone turnover.
(10) With the formation of the compound eye and the appearance of the carapace and other body-like structures, marking morphogenesis to the zoeal stage, embryos showed the beginning of a continuous and dramatic increase in ecdysteroid concentrations sustained until larval hatchout.
(11) Except for mild osteomalacia, carapaces of adult desert tortoises from the grazed habitat were relatively normal.
(12) For some substances (cadmium, bichromate, metavanadate, and bromide) individual growth (carapace length) was found to be a sensitive parameter.
(13) Mann called the series What Remains, her point being that death is not an end, that nature goes on doing its work long after the body has become a carapace.
(14) The three muscles on each side of the head share a common origin on the carapace and insert dorsally, laterally and ventrally on the eye.
(15) To circumvent this drawback in the application of morphometrics to describe 2 dimensional shapes, an alternative procedure based on Fourier analysis was developed and applied to the turtle carapace.
(16) Yet what the episode really shows is how much pressure MPs are under without the protective carapace of unity.
(17) Prawns greater than 22 mm carapace length could consume snails of any size.
(18) The electroretinogram (ERG) waveform of Petrolisthes elongatus is biphasic and transient and does not change with age (monitored as carapace length and weight of the individual).
(19) Based on these results, we propose that dermal bone of the peripheral carapace is a poor sample site for evaluating the effects of dietary or environmental conditions on calcified tissues in desert tortoises.
(20) He inherited a semi-proportional assembly electoral system that masks a core of partisan pro-Labour self-interest under a carapace of pluralism.
Cuticle
Definition:
(n.) The scarfskin or epidermis. See Skin.
(n.) The outermost skin or pellicle of a plant, found especially in leaves and young stems.
(n.) A thin skin formed on the surface of a liquid.
Example Sentences:
(1) Moreover, the mucoid substances of the sensillum lymph are probably involved in water conservation, since sensilla are prone to water loss, because the overlying cuticle must be permeable to the chemical stimuli.
(2) All the canals open independently at the surface of the cuticle and the substance deposited there is a mixture of proteins and acid mucosubstances.
(3) The second gene lies within an intron of the purine gene and encodes a cuticle protein.
(4) In vitro the epidermis synthesized and secreted both forms into both the cuticle and the medium.
(5) The morphology of the adult female cuticle is discussed.
(6) In all these cuticles the tubular filaments arise from the plasma membrane of the epidermal cells and they contain argentaffin material, regarded as sclerotin precursors, and lipid-staining material, regarded as wax precursors.
(7) Between the cuticle and dermal collagen there are granular deposits which might be immune complexes involving the collagenous component of cuticle.
(8) Eisenia epidermis does not recordably synthesize the cuticle until after wounding (first eight segments removed).
(9) Cuticle morphology identifies two types of sensilla trichodea, two types of sensilla basiconica and one type of sensillum coeloconicum.
(10) At the culmination of each molt, the larval tobacco hornworm exhibits a pre-ecdysis behavior prior to shedding its old cuticle at ecdysis.
(11) A homozygous mutant escaper had weak, completely unpigmented cuticle and unpigmented bristles.
(12) On dark-adaptation of the 11-day adult eye, the rhabdomers move towards the cuticle.
(13) Once the fungus enters the hair cortex just above the hair bulb, it produces myriads of spores that remain trapped and hidden beneath the cuticle for the length of the intact hair.
(14) Thus, during larval growth the cuticle remains flexible and extensible.
(15) C3 conversion products were detected on larval cuticles by eosinophil adherence and by immunofluorescence with C3c antiserum.
(16) Both genes encode 5.5-kilobase mRNAs, similar in size to the mammalian and Drosophila type IV collagen gene transcripts but much larger than the cuticle collagen transcripts of C. elegans.
(17) The facilitation of eclosion by adult colony members appears to be an obligatory process in the development of this species; pupae denied the aid of adult workers during eclosion are unable to remove the pupal cuticle and rapidly succumb.
(18) The antibodies, which were produced in the course of T. spiralis infection in rats, specifically bound to the inner layers of the body cuticle and the cuticle of the hindgut, but not to the cuticle of the esophagus.
(19) Autonomous expression of Met was found both in abdominal cuticle as well as in external male genitalia.
(20) However, late larval worms that expressed the adult cuticle did not express blisters either.