(n.) A loose and flowing outer garment, worn by the ancient Greeks; a kind of cloak.
Example Sentences:
(1) The six main carotenoids extracted from three shellfish species (Chlamys opercularis, L., Cardium tuberculatum, L., Pecten jacobaeus, L.) were isolated in highly pure form by means of semi-preparative HPLC.
(2) A binary complex consisting of Mr 19,000 and Mr 40,000 components was co-purified with troponin from a crude troponin fraction of Akazara scallop (Chlamys nipponensis akazara) striated adductor muscle.
(3) Bioaccumulation factor (BF) for endosulfan II for crayfish tissues was 1.97, which is considerably lower than for other aquatic invertebrates (26 for scallop, Chlamys opercularis and 600 for mussel, Mytilus edulis.
(4) Three components of Akazara scallop (Chlamys nipponensis akazara) troponin were well separated from each other by a single-step chromatography on CM-Toyopearl, although they were hardly separated on DEAE-Sephadex A-25.
(5) Here we report two related compounds, 1-methyl-N alpha-methyl-4-mercaptohistidine, or ovothiol B, from the scallop Chlamys hastata, and 1-methyl-4-mercaptohistidine, or ovothiol A, from the starfish Evasterias troschelii.
(6) Troponins which confer Ca-sensitivity to skeletal actomyosin ATPase were successfully isolated from striated and smooth adductor muscles of "Akazara" scallop (Chlamys nipponensis akazara).
(7) The putative larval form which is morphologically dissimilar is found in two species of marine molluscs, Chlamys bifrons and Pecten albus.
(8) Troponin was isolated from striated adductor muscles of the "Akazara" scallop (Chlamys nipponensis akazara), and purified in an active form by DEAE-cellulose (Whatman DE52) column chromatography and subsequent gel filtration on Sephacryl S-300.
(9) Marine bivalve molluscs, the mussel Mytilus galloprovincialis aud the scallop Chlamys (Flexopecten) glaber ponticus, have been injected (intramuscularly or in the haemolymph) with glucose, mammalian insulin, insulin (or insulin-like substance) from molluscs, and anti-insulin serum, checking changes in glucose and fatty acid content of the haemolymph as well as in the content of glycogen and the activity of glycogen synthetase in muscles.
Horsemen
Definition:
(pl. ) of Horseman
Example Sentences:
(1) Almost a century after they were nearly destroyed by the Bolsheviks, these fierce horsemen – recruited by Ivan the Terrible in 1571 to guard Russia's borders – are back in harness.
(2) The four horsemen of Trident – Vanguard, Victorious, Vigilant and Vengeance – take it in turn to provide a continuous patrol of the world's oceans, wielding a cargo of up to 16 Trident ballistic missiles.
(3) Thus these tests can be used pre-race to determine whether horsemen have treated their horses with furosemide, and post-race to perform an initial evaluation of whether certain blood concentrations of furosemide have been exceeded.
(4) We can’t find workers this year – it’s been tough,” says Julio Rubio of the Kentucky Horsemen’s Benevolent and Protective Association.
(5) Flight Out of Egypt has a huge crowd of figures at what seems like a desert oasis – to the left there is a rhythmic forest of plumed lances held by horsemen and camel riders, to the right tents and groups of Arabs (including a tambour dancer based on an image at Pompeii).
(6) Blair warned that the Tory-promised referendum on European Union membership would bring Chaos (who you’ll recall is one of the horsemen with whom Blair works in the Middle East Quartet).
(7) First, past extinctions have been driven by what are now becoming very familiar horsemen of a planetary apocalypse: massive volcanic outbursts to choke the atmosphere and poison the seas; the mayhem caused by major asteroid impact; and the wrenching effects of rapid climate change.
(8) Governments invoke the Four Horsemen of the Infocalypse (software pirates, organised crime, child pornographers, and terrorists) and say that unless they can decrypt bad guys’ hard drives and listen in on their conversations, law and order is a dead letter.
(9) To a credulous public, his experience conjured a romantic world of proud and ruthless Bedouin horsemen silhouetted against a burning sky; of Saladin, scimitars, keffiyehs, and desert hawks.
(10) If you are not a sixth-former from a poor family losing the £30-a-week allowance to keep you in education, if you don't use buses, whose subsidies are cut, and you don't work in the public sector, losing 10% in frozen pay and pension contributions, then at first you may think the four horsemen of the apocalypse have passed you by.
(11) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Detail of an Assyrian relief from Nimrud showing horses and horsemen of the royal chariot, 725BC.
(12) First, we had Representative Michele Bachmann (Republican, Minneosota) asserting that President Obama's decision to help a segment of the Syrian rebels is proof positive that the four horsemen of the apocalypse would be showing up any day now .
(13) The battle before the meeting was quelled only when police horsemen and police armed with riot shields charged the crowd.
(14) Shakespeare was also on today's bill, with an Italian all-female interpretation of As You Like It, while Zingaro's latest spectacular - which "brings together horsemen, dancers and musicians on stage while 10 Tibetan monks, aged 20 to 70, produce the austere sound of their buffalo voices" - was due to open on Thursday.
(15) In an article for Guardian Review before the publication of his new book, The Kraus Project, he writes: "In my own little corner of the world, which is to say American fiction, Jeff Bezos of Amazon may not be the antichrist, but he surely looks like one of the four horsemen.
(16) These immunoassays are sufficiently sensitive to control abuse of the most potent drugs available to horsemen.
(17) (1969), a dully temporising Hollywood account of the life of Che Guevara, in which at one point Sharif’s Guevara is confronted by Jack Palance ’s Fidel Castro with the mumbled expostulation: “Che, sometimes I just don’t understand you.” The Last Valley (1971) and The Horsemen (1971) were poorly rated would-be spectacles.
(18) Britain no longer has a government, it seems, merely four horsemen from Apocalypse plc.
(19) 'Shame, shame, shame on you,' chanted the protesters beyond the lines of Darth Vader-style police, the armoured cars, the horsemen, the National Guard and the dogs.
(20) He advocates avoiding the four horsemen of the relationship apocalypse: criticism, contempt, stonewalling and defensiveness.