(n.) A lizardlike reptile of the genus Chamaeleo, of several species, found in Africa, Asia, and Europe. The skin is covered with fine granulations; the tail is prehensile, and the body is much compressed laterally, giving it a high back.
Example Sentences:
(1) During cricket movement, the chameleon locked both eyes straight forward in their orbits and followed the cricket movement with a visually guided head movement.
(2) An immunocytochemical method, using glutaraldehyde fixation and an antiserum developed against a GABA-glutaraldehyde protein conjugate, permitted direct visualization of GABAergic structures in the brain of a reptile (chameleon).
(3) One thing that really surprised me about him was he was chameleon-like, which is obvious in the transition of characters he developed over the years, but you’d never notice him if he was out walking in the street.
(4) This "chameleonic" effect results in different solubility parameters for a solute, depending on the polarity of the solvent.
(5) Chameleon, goldfish, and frog retinas were nonreactive.
(6) It was hypothesized that during movement of both a cricket and the body of an alert chameleon, the visually guided head movement and the vestibulo-collic reflex were additive.
(7) Chameleon head movement was studied to learn how information from more than one sensory system can be co-ordinated to produce a single motor behavior.
(8) Also featured are the puffer fish, dung beetle, veiled chameleon and moon jellyfish.
(9) During movement of the body of an anesthetized chameleon, there was no measurable movement of the head relative to the body.
(10) They accuse Zuma of being a political chameleon who tells audiences what they want to hear, reassuring business, courting trade unions and communists, appealing to populist sentiments for the death penalty and against gay marriage.
(11) Living in the middle of all of this name calling and double standards, I had to harden my heart.” It’s an insight, and an interesting one for a political character who was at once direct and plain speaking – yet often frustratingly enigmatic, a chameleon who would fade in and out of sight.
(12) Yet despite official denunciation and celebration of diversity, racism as a concept in this country endures, adapting and readapting, chameleon-like to the changing social and political times.
(13) Despite asynchrony, saccades of left and right eyes of African chameleons had similar timing statistics.
(14) He was the first, the original and the best pop chameleon, ringing the ch-ch-changes for every new release or tour, playing with costume, masks and alter egos in a way that always felt organic and interesting.
(15) Security researchers have discovered a botnet they have dubbed "Chameleon" which they calculate is costing display advertisers around $6m (£3.9m) per month by falsely viewing billions of pages and adverts on about 200 sites owned by a small group of publishers.
(16) "The British electorate are a sophisticated bunch who will see through his chameleon tendencies and conclude this attack is not an act of leadership but one of cowardice as he panders to the extreme wing of his own party and tries to claw back support from Ukip," he said.
(17) This something for everybody is "a little bit too chameleon-like", she said.
(18) Some visual, vestibular and proprioceptive reflexes which contribute to gaze (head + eye) stabilization were quantified in the chameleon.
(19) These pathogens have not been reported previously in chameleons, nor has a combined infection of circulating monocytes with these two pathogens been reported for any animal.
(20) "There are very few actors who can be so chameleon-like and inhabit roles in the way he does," says David Wolstencroft, who wrote the legal thriller The Escape Artist, which ended on BBC1 this week.
Protean
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to Proteus; characteristic of Proteus.
(a.) Exceedingly variable; readily assuming different shapes or forms; as, an amoeba is a protean animalcule.
Example Sentences:
(1) Such a need has occurred in New York City, where schistosomiasis, with its protean manifestations has been seen with increasing frequency.
(2) Sarcoidosis is a disease of unknown etiology with protean manifestations.
(3) Cow's milk protein intolerance (CMPI) is recognised as an important cause of protean symptoms in infants.
(4) The symptoms are protean from unilateral headache, Horners syndrome, tinnitus, to cerebral ischemia and hemipareses.
(5) The protean clinical manifestation depends on the site and the extent of the disease and its complications.
(6) Lyme borreliosis is a protean infection caused by B burgdorferi, a recently recognized arthropod-borne spirochete.
(7) The fossil fuel resistance, like the fossil fuel industry, is protean and sprawling – and each win reverberates for decades to come, because that’s how long pipelines and coal mines are built to last.
(8) Congenital intrapericardial aneurysm of the left atrial wall is a rare anomaly with protean manifestations.
(9) It was important for the physician to have a high index of suspicion based on a protean chief complaint, a lack of preceding history of illness, the time of presentation to the ED, and more subtle physical findings such as minor skin bruising, retinal hemorrhage, and distended abdomen.
(10) Amongst the protean extra-intestinal manifestations of inflammatory bowel disease, scant mention is made of muscle involvement.
(11) This adds another entity to the already protean manifestations of M. pneumoniae infection.
(12) The signs and symptoms of the syndrome are protean, and the underlying cancer is often occult.
(13) Widespread drug abuse, a comparatively recent medicosocial phenomenon, presents protean clinical patterns and challenging diagnostic problems daily that mimic classical medical syndromes.
(14) The infants all had multiple skin haemangiomas as well as deep-seated lesions in many different tissues that caused protean clinical manifestations and management problems.
(15) The latter has protean manifestations, but bouts of fever with low parasitaemia and blood disorders are predominant.
(16) Only the subsequent course of the tumor enabled us to identify the site in the sphenoid sinus, an atypical area surrounded by numerous neurovascular structures which, if involved, may give rise to a protean and nonspecific symptom-complex.
(17) While qualitatively normal, these precursors accumulate to cause protean signs and symptoms.
(18) Symptomatology was protean, clinical findings minimal, relapses frequent, and results of laboratory investigations, including virological studies, were generally negative.
(19) Both clinicians and pathologists must be aware of the protean manifestations of AIDS in order to establish an accurate and complete diagnosis.
(20) Although the hallmark of Mycoplasma pneumoniae infection is pneumonia, the organism is also responsible for a protean array of other symptoms.