What's the difference between caterpillar and cremaster?

Caterpillar


Definition:

  • (n.) The larval state of a butterfly or any lepidopterous insect; sometimes, but less commonly, the larval state of other insects, as the sawflies, which are also called false caterpillars. The true caterpillars have three pairs of true legs, and several pairs of abdominal fleshy legs (prolegs) armed with hooks. Some are hairy, others naked. They usually feed on leaves, fruit, and succulent vegetables, being often very destructive, Many of them are popularly called worms, as the cutworm, cankerworm, army worm, cotton worm, silkworm.
  • (n.) A plant of the genus Scorpiurus, with pods resembling caterpillars.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "I am aware of the toxic nature of the caterpillars, but also aware that previous control methods have reduced the number of caterpillar nests from several dozen in 2011 to only three last year.
  • (2) Muscle fibers from fourth and fifth instar caterpillars were examined with scanning and thin section electron microscopy.
  • (3) The Very Hungry Caterpillar & Friends (£2.99) The Very Hungry Caterpillar & Friends is a reworking of Eric Carle’s classic book and illustrations, in the form of a digital “pop-up app” modelled after printed pop-up books.
  • (4) "It may be that thistle-cutting or spraying is unnecessary this summer because the caterpillars will defoliate them for you."
  • (5) An apparent circadian feeding pattern appeared on day 2 in the sham-operated caterpillars.
  • (6) Insect venom is likely injected into the skin through specialized caterpillar hairs when contact occurs with the insect (or vegetation laden with insect debris).
  • (7) Pine processionary moth (Thaumetopoea pityocampa) Processional pine caterpillar tent, near Benimaurell, Alicante Province, Comunidad Valenciana, Spain.
  • (8) The CAT system assures access for Caterpillar employees and their families to a selection of qualified surgeons, while achieving cost savings through improvements in processing of surgical claims and negotiation of selected fees.
  • (9) Bacterial luciferase, derived from a fusion of the luxA and luxB genes of Vibrio harveyi, has been expressed at very high levels in caterpillars and insect cells.
  • (10) The main components of the diets were fish, lactose free milk, caseinate, partial hydrolasate of albumin, fermented corn and soya (Soy-Ogi), medium-chain triglycerides, rice and the local foods manioc, peanuts and caterpillars.
  • (11) When else am I going to try fried caterpillar?” she wondered.
  • (12) The junctional structures present between the midgut cells of 3 lepidopteran caterpillars have been examined using freeze-etching, conventional staining and lanthanum tracer techniques.
  • (13) Insect juvenile hormones are metabolized in numerous species of caterpillars by low abundance, highly specific esterases.
  • (14) But Oates thinks the common blue should be doing better; its food plant, bird’s-foot-trefoil , will grow in gently cut garden lawns, its caterpillars can also feed on agricultural clovers in “improved” grassland.
  • (15) You can throw tarts at the Queen of Hearts, help the Caterpillar smoke his hookah pipe, make Alice grow as big as a house and then shrink again.
  • (16) The cell extracts from both clones were toxic to caterpillars.
  • (17) The changes in numbers of giant forms in the development course of populations in the caterpillars, pupae and imagos body of both species were studied.
  • (18) The principal locomotory appendages of the Manduca sexta caterpillar, the prolegs, are present on the third through sixth abdominal segments (anal prolegs located on the terminal segment were not included in this study).
  • (19) Oak processionary moth caterpillars cover a tree trunk.
  • (20) Two of the farms had army caterpillar (Mythimna convecta) infestations.

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.

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