(n.) The hard parts or skeleton of various Anthozoa, and of a few Hydrozoa. Similar structures are also formed by some Bryozoa.
(n.) The ovaries of a cooked lobster; -- so called from their color.
(n.) A piece of coral, usually fitted with small bells and other appurtenances, used by children as a plaything.
Example Sentences:
(1) One of the main users is coastal planning organizations and conservation organizations that are working on coral reefs.
(2) What are the major threats that face the world's coral reefs and what more needs to be done to protect them?
(3) But the study’s co-author Mark Hay, a professor from the Georgia Institute of Technology, said the discovery here was that greater carbon concentrations led to “some algae producing more potent chemicals that suppress or kill corals more rapidly”, in some cases in just weeks.
(4) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Table corals provide an excellent hiding place for smaller fish.
(5) But the Guardian can now reveal Australia will also need to report on how it is dealing with the current bleaching, where almost a quarter of the coral on the reef has been killed.
(6) Guillermo Diaz-Pulido, a Griffith University associate professor, said the research was “a major step forward in understanding how seaweeds can harm corals and has important implications for comprehending the consequences of increased carbon dioxide emissions on the health of the Great Barrier Reef”.
(7) A new allele of white-coral (wco2) was isolated from Canton S after mutagenesis.
(8) The Infinity towel comes in colours more vibrant than one might expect from an eco-friendly product, including coral, green, blue and violet.
(9) Warming water will make it hard for many of the reef’s corals to survive, while the acidification of the oceans will hinder the ability of remaining corals to form their skeletons.
(10) Tyr190 may react with the coral toxin by nucleophilic addition at one of the carbons associated with an epoxide, and may form part of the alkylammonium-binding subsite of the acetylcholine recognition site.
(11) A recent study suggests that coral disease is doubled when dredging occurs near reefs, although supporters of the dredging have repeatedly insisted it can be done safely and that the Abbot Point sediment will be dumped around 40km from the nearest reef.
(12) This process hinders the ability of corals to produce the skeletal building blocks of reefs.
(13) We’re currently due to fly back on Friday afternoon and were not too concerned about it just yet.” Mohammed Sami, general manager of the Coral Sea Sensatori, one of Sharm el-Sheikh’s largest resorts, said the move had created uncertainty for holidaymakers.
(14) Incidentally, it’s the algae that give the coral its colour; and so when it’s ejected, the coral takes on a ghostly white hue, giving rise to the term “bleaching”.
(15) So are you optimistic then about the future survival of the world's coral reefs in the long term?
(16) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Coral bleaching on the Great Barrier Reef worse than for decades The photos were taken from around Lizard Island by Lyle Vale from Coral Watch at the University of Queensland .
(17) So we looked at the economic contribution of tourists to that area and compared it with the cost of interventions to improve water quality and coral reef health in that area.
(18) Freed of the need to wave their tentacles around to hunt for food, the coral can devote more energy to secreting the mineral calcium carbonate, from which they form a stony exoskeleton.
(19) It was the fourth mass bleaching to hit the reef in recorded history – all since 1998 – and coral scientists are alarmed the increasing regularity of these events gives stressed coral precious little chance to recover.
(20) In areas near the loaders, enough has accumulated to have a toxic effect on the corals that grow there.
Madrepore
Definition:
(n.) Any coral of the genus Madrepora; formerly, often applied to any stony coral.
Example Sentences:
(1) The madreporic ("caviar") prosthesis is a hinged knee prosthesis that can be inserted without the use of cement.
(2) The reconstruction of the anterior basis of the skull has been simplified as much as possible: it has been performed either with a bone graft removed from the frontal flap inner table, or with a precut madreporic coral graft.
(3) The Madreporic hip arthroplasty has provided encouraging clinical results.
(4) They have selected a particular type of prosthesis with a "madreporic" surface and have studied the potential danger or corrosion in such types of prosthesis as compared with prostheses with a plane surface.
(5) Forty-four Madreporic, cementless, total hip arthroplasties performed on 41 patients were reviewed, with special attention to overall clinical results and radiologic findings.
(6) Twenty two cranio-facial reconstructions were performed utilizing madreporic coral graft, genera porites.
(7) The cranial base was reconstructed with madreporic coral grafts; then a large extra-dural pediculated galea flap was placed onto the anterior base to line the sub-frontal dura.
(8) The authors, after putting forth several biomechanical premises, discuss their experience in total hip arthroplasty (THA) using a PCA-type press fit cementless prosthesis with partial Madreporic covering.
(9) Three madreporic prostheses in two patients were examined to evaluate resorption and formation of the surrounding bone tissue.
(10) The results of 58 cementless total hip prostheses (Lord madreporous type) were evaluated 4 to 7 years after implantation.
(11) Short-course indomethacin was felt to deter heterotopic bone formation significantly, while having no deleterious effect on stabilization of the St. Michael's madreporic system.
(12) We do not propose here a critical or a comparative study of the different materials mentioned: Our goal has been to transmit our finding, based on the importance of madrepore: its wide availability; easy use; economical price; biological qualities; consistent result.
(13) The authors conclude that short-term clinical results using Madreporic total hip replacement are satisfactory.
(14) Anterior skull base reconstruction was performed with a madreporic coral graft, which is a simple, fast and reliable technique, permitting a complete skull base closure.
(15) The authors strongly believe that the Madreporic cementless total hip arthroplasty should be used only in centres dealing with a large volume of hip conditions where staff are committed to documenting and reporting the results of surgery regularly.
(16) Seven Madreporic hip arthroplasties were implanted in adult male mongrel dogs.
(17) The aboral skeletal system of the juvenile immediately after metamorphosis is composed of one central, one madreporic, ten radial and interradial plates, in addition to five terminal plates on the arms.
(18) Since 1985, the authors have been using madreporic coral fragments (genera Porites) as a bone graft substitute.
(19) The surgical technique is described precisely including a paralateronasal approach combined with a bifrontocoronal incision, a bilateral ethmoidectomy and reconstruction of the anterior base of the skull by one sheets taken-out from the inner surface of the frontal flap or more recently madreporic coralline grafts; the dura is hermetically sealed and it is lined with a large galea flap.
(20) Firm mechanical anchorage of the Madreporic femoral prosthesis was demonstrated in this study.