(n.) One who watches shoals of fish; a balker. See Balker.
Example Sentences:
(1) Will, and the four Fifa executive-committee members stood four square behind him — Lennart Johansson, Uefa's top politician whom Blatter had defeated in the 1998 presidential campaign, Issa Hayatou, the Conderation of African Football president who was challenging Blatter at the 2002 election, the Italian Antonio Matarrese and the Korean Chung Mong-joon — were all executive-committee members.
(2) Environmental monitoring of surface waters around Lancaster showed that thermophilic campylobacters were absent from drinking water from the fells and from the clean upper reaches of the River Conder but were present in the main rivers entering Morecambe Bay, the lower reaches of the River Conder, the Lancaster canal, and seawater from the Lune estuary and Morecambe Bay.
(3) The name itself has been ascribed to the Latin word condere, Cum Domino, the French city of Condom, and doctor Quondom, the physician of the English King Charles II.
Conger
Definition:
(n.) The conger eel; -- called also congeree.
Example Sentences:
(1) An activity UTP : D-glucose-1-phosphate uridylyltransferase is located in the microsomal membranes of conger liver.
(2) The theoretical model employed was an adaptation of Conger's Ecological-Systems approach which was based on the principles of Bronfenbrenner's theory of human development.
(3) Newmark, Conger, and Faschingbauer (1976) found a significant difference between mean ratings of MMPI and FAM (Faschingbauer's Abbreviated MMPI) based interpretations.
(4) When the present results are compared to those of Newmark, Conger and Faschinbauer (1976) and earlier work by Fashcinbauer (1973), it appears that the FAM yields interpretation as accurate as one would expect given its psychometric dissimilarity from the MMPI.
(5) This microsomal enzyme could be the last of a membranous biosynthetic pathway for UDP-glucose, as conger liver microsomes contain also a membranous glucokinase and a membranous phosphoglucomutase.
(6) A galactose-binding lectin was purified from the skin mucus of the conger eel Conger myriaster by affinity chromatography and HPLC.
(7) Congresox talabonoides, the yellow conger pike eel, caught near Hong Kong, shows a high incidence of abnormal vertebrae and dorsal fin rays.
(8) A conger was obtained which was heterozygous for the variant allele at the muscle-glucosephosphate isomerase locus.
(9) Serotonin-like immunoreactivity was found in the club cells of Heteropneustes fossilis and Carapus acus but not in those from the sea eel Conger conger.
(10) The production of amines may indicate that the Merkel cells of C. conger have both secretory capabilities and transduction functions.
(11) The skin mucus of the conger eel, Conger myriaster, contains galactose-specific agglutinins.
(12) A comparison of the variant conger muscle isozyme with the wild type revealed a single altered peptide, suggesting a point mutation.
(13) Quantitative receptor autoradiographic study of 125I-atrial natriuretic peptide factor (ANF) in the heart of a teleost fish Conger conger has shown that a heterogenous distribution of 125I-ANF binding exists in the different cardiac regions.
(14) The isozymes were isolated from catfish liver and muscle and from conger muscle and shown to be homogeneous by polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis, isoelectric focusing, analytical ultracentrifugation, and rechromatography.
(15) Leukocyte and kidney cell cultures were used to examine the sex chromosomes of Japanese freshwater eels (Anguilla japonica) and conger eels (Astroconger myriaster).
(16) The amino-acid sequence of a beta-galactoside-binding lectin isolated from the skin mucus of the conger eel Conger myriaster was determined.
(17) Immunocytochemical techniques were used to investigate the distribution and co-localization of neuron-specific enolase (NSE) and serotonin (5-HT) in the skin of the conger eel, Conger conger.