(n.) An oblong case in which the silkworm lies in its chrysalis state. It is formed of threads of silk spun by the worm just before leaving the larval state. From these the silk of commerce is prepared.
(n.) The case constructed by any insect to contain its larva or pupa.
(n.) The case of silk made by spiders to protect their eggs.
(n.) The egg cases of mucus, etc., made by leeches and other worms.
Example Sentences:
(1) Abdominal cocoon is rare, only 31 cases reported in the literature.
(2) There is effective use of a scuba-like neoprene fabric which is slickly practical and gives a bold, shell-like silhouette to hooded coats and to sweatshirts which seems to reference the balloon and cocoon shapes that Cristobal Balenciaga invented to great acclaim in the 1950s.
(3) The pitch on which Iceland train, favoured in the past by Monaco and Nantes for summer getaways, sits beneath Mont Veyrier and is cocooned a few hundred metres from pristine lakeside beaches and disrobed holidaymakers.
(4) The nonsoluble degradation products formed a cocoon encapsulating the now smaller specimen.
(5) A single preincubational exposure of silkworm eggs to a dose of 2 Gy increases the mass of larvae as well as the cocoon shell weight, silk-bearing and the raw silk production.
(6) For copper and dichloroaniline earthworms did recover cocoon production to a level as high as the control level or even higher; in case of pentachlorophenol, cocoon production was still reduced after 3 weeks in clean soil.
(7) The abnormalities at laparotomy were impressive, with a gross proliferation of the visceral peritoneum which formed a dense white cocoon which encased, constricted and markedly shortened the small bowel, usually from the duodenojejunal flexure to the ileocaecal valve.
(8) After the spinning of the cocoon, the cells are lysed and disappear entirely at the nymphal stage.
(9) The exposed adult females formed cocoons but no larvae hatched from them.
(10) By making a fibrin cocoon, the anastomosis can be insulated.
(11) After years of wearing a facemask and grabbing all the covers to cocoon myself against the light while he reads, we have made two changes that have transformed everything.
(12) The specificity of this antibody to the purified cocoon protein has suggested strong immunoreactivity up to a titre of 1:5000 dilution of the antibody.
(13) After a promising start it appears this press conference has degenerated into its usual cocoon of flaky stuff.
(14) The crystalline material covering the cocoon of Malacosoma neustria testacea (Lasiocampidae, Lepidoptera) was analyzed physically and chemically.
(15) No mature cockroaches from larvae exposed to AG-5, no hatching from cocoons lied by treated adults were observed.
(16) As we left the intimate cocoon of the pub, my bouncy excitement became more of a trudge as, heart in mouth, I babbled and swore, and panicked that I couldn't do it, terrified that stage fright and nerves would overtake me, and that my tentative voice would abandon me altogether.
(17) The analysis of the cocoon showed that it was made of a silica-rich layer containing also calcium and phosphorus.
(18) Acid-base and electrolyte balance do not reach a new equilibrium within 1 yr in the cocoon.
(19) Electrophoretograms of reduced samples of secretion collected from either actively feeding or "cocoon"-building animals showed an electrophoretic pattern containing up to six of the 25 protein fractions detected in salivary gland samples, with varied amounts of these same six proteins in electrophoretograms of secretion samples from a given stage.
(20) You’re really into your own little cocoon, because you have such massive protection that you really can’t go anywhere.
Metamorphose
Definition:
(v. t.) To change into a different form; to transform; to transmute.
(n.) Same as Metamorphosis.
Example Sentences:
(1) A differential, temporal and spatial expression of this epitope in metamorphosing nervous tissue was outlined, that apparently characterises homologous neuronal populations in two phylogenetically distinct holometabolous insects, i.e.
(2) Arms excised from metamorphosing larvae will undergo a sequence of contraction and histolysis that is identical to that occurring in intact larvae.
(3) Six polypeptides are characteristic of the secondary intestinal epithelium, as they are only detected in the newly-metamorphosed juvenile.
(4) Silver grains on colloid droplets indicating thyroid hormone excretion are inexistent in the most larval neotenics, more numerous in most metamorphosed neotenics.
(5) In metamorphosing tadpole liver, the quantitative and qualitative changes in glycoproteins were observed by sodium dodecyl sulfate polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis and lectin-peroxidase method.
(6) When the narrative voice ventriloquises the metamorphosed Gregor to muse "Was he an animal if music could captivate him so?
(7) In this study, relative enzyme activities of the products of two duplicate loci in each of three enzyme systems (aconitase, malate dehydrogenase, and isocitrate dehydrogenase) were measured in paedomorphs and in paedomorphs forced to metamorphose by treatment with thyroxine.
(8) The background of the National Cancer Institute fermentation program is placed into the historical perspective of the entire NCI drug development program, which began as the Cancer Chemotherapy National Service Center and metamorphosed into the Chemotherapy Program and ultimately into the Division of Cancer Treatment.
(9) The sexual abuse of women today is analyzed alongside the mythology of Ovid's Metamorphoses.
(10) Inhibitors of cysteine proteinase were found in tadpole tail of metamorphosing bullfrog.
(11) These tadpoles metamorphosed as intact controls did, but their plasma PRL levels remained low.
(12) DNA synthesis was studied by 3H-thymidine incorporation in limb tissues of mesodermal origin in metamorphosing common frog (Rana temporaria) tadpoles in the process of loss of regenerative ability.
(13) We report an approach to this problem by observing metamorphosing larvae using electron microscopy and by assaying the aggregation potential of ciliated and central larval cells fractionated on Percoll gradients.
(14) Presence of a thyroxine-binding protein was demonstrated in vivo in cell sap of tail and liver of metamorphosing Rana catesbeiana tadpoles.
(15) These data indicate that vacuoles may be discharged promptly from the liver cell cytoplasm after recovery from congestion, and the remaining vacuoles may metamorphose to hyaline globules by condensation of the contents and finally fade into the cytoplasm.
(16) His experiences typically involve paralysis, difficulty breathing, strange proprioceptive hallucinations such as his body vibrating, and bizarre "hyper-real" visual hallucinations during which objects may metamorphose into nightmarish objects.
(17) Using this size difference to examine the hypothesis that neuron numbers are matched to the size of their postsynaptic targets during neuronal cell death, we measured the following on stage 66 frogs metamorphosing from PTU-treated and untreated tadpoles: lumbar lateral motor column (L-LMC) motoneuron number and mean nuclear cross-sectional area; thoracic and lumbar dorsal root ganglion (DRG) cell number and mean nuclear cross-sectional area; and muscle fiber number in two representative thigh muscles.
(18) The metamorphosed implants were analyzed microscopically for the presence of musculature, histochemically for the distribution of enzyme activity, and electrophoretically for determination of the phenotypes of the two muscle-marker enzymes.
(19) Tadpoles of Xenopus laevis reared in water containing 0-01% propylthiouracil continue to grow but fail to develop or metamorphose.
(20) At the developmental stage at which the hemolymph of the unparasitized metamorphosing host has its maximum titer of prepupal ecdysteroids, the hemolymph of 4th instar "truly parasitized" hosts (hosts with a surviving endoparasite) had a strongly reduced ecdysteroid titer.