What's the difference between crawfish and ossicle?

Crawfish


Definition:

  • (n.) Alt. of Crayfish

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We used to have parties, crawfish boils, everybody would come to our house and sit in our backyard,” he said, gesturing at empty space.
  • (2) Crossed radioimmunoelectrophoresis (CRIE) demonstrated 6 crawfish and 4 lobster allergens when individual or pooled sera from radioallergosorbent test (RAST)-positive crustacea-sensitive subjects were used.
  • (3) My Facebook feed is filled with my friends’ pictures of crabs with no eyes, shrimp and crawfish with one eye or things missing,” Misty Fisher, 24, said.
  • (4) Which explains whythey are over-trapped in the US, used for beignets (deep-fried pastries), in Lousiana's crawfish étouffée stew, and other treats stuffed with the delicate and sweet crayfish tail meat.
  • (5) A study was conducted to determine the toxicities (LC50S) of several pesticides on the commercially important red swamp crawfish, Procambarus clarkii, and 3 mosquito species common in Louisiana ricelands--Anopheles quadrimaculatus, Culex salinarius and Psorophora columbiae.
  • (6) Crossed immunoelectrophoresis with rabbit antisera revealed 23 antigens in crawfish and 17 antigens in lobster extracts.
  • (7) Isostearyl alcohol was the least toxic compound to crawfish, with a LC50 of greater than 10,000 ppm, while resmethrin + PBO (1:3 ratio) was the most toxic with a LC50 of 0.00082 ppm.
  • (8) Antigenic and allergenic components in crawfish and lobster extracts were studied using crossed immunoelectrophoretic techniques.
  • (9) Bea's of Bloomsbury got in touch about a crawfish boil, which ran for 22 weeks – we got through a lot of crayfish!
  • (10) Preincubation of RAST-positive sera with crawfish or lobster extract decreased radiostaining in CRIE, while no changes occurred when using control sera.
  • (11) Venturing west, you might have stumbled across Lucy's Retired Surfers Bar, where New Orleans's dapper Luke Winslow-King and the washboard-wielding Esther Rose got the crawfish-munching masses jitterbugging to their vintage sweaty Southern stomp.
  • (12) Those who know a little more might talk about crawfish, music built around the omnipresence of the accordion, and an ongoing quest to preserve the local French dialect.
  • (13) Today, Duhon regales us with a single the band released in 1963, written during his time as an oilman in South America and based on a fusion of Cajun music with a rhumba beat: 'A crawfish boil down in Lafayette A gumbo supper down in Jeanerette You'll find out If you go Everybody's dancing the Cajun Pogo.'
  • (14) In an effort to raise awareness, and appetite, for the invaders, Bob has teamed up with American chef Bea Vo for a series of traditional US-style "crawfish boils" in London this summer, serving crayfish with corn, sausage and potatoes.
  • (15) The images, which are deeply layered and particular to a black Southern vernacular and aesthetic, beg to be catalogued: Creole and Black American, Mardi Gras Indian, crawfish, Black cowboys, wig shops, socks and slippers, corsets and parasols, parades, high school basketball, step team moves, bounce queens Big Freedia and Messy Mya, cotillions, “twirl on dem haters”, braids, “bama”, black spirituality (church and hoodoo, maybe even a nod to Mami Wata), black mama side eyes, drawls, Blue Ivy black girl magic fierceness.

Ossicle


Definition:

  • (n.) A little bone; as, the auditory ossicles in the tympanum of the ear.
  • (n.) One of numerous small calcareous structures forming the skeleton of certain echinoderms, as the starfishes.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The second, the normal tubercle for insertion of the transverse ligament of the atlas, may look like a separate ossicle or a chip fracture.
  • (2) Each mastoid and epitympanum was extensively involved with chronically inflamed tissue which surrounded the ossicles and chorda tympani nerve.
  • (3) A case is presented in which an ossicle was evaluated acutely.
  • (4) A review of arthroscopic, radiographic, and clinical data of all patients undergoing ankle arthroscopy at our center provided the following diagnoses: talar dome osteochondral fractures, loose bodies, accessory ossicles, talar dome cyst with loose bodies, and chronic synovitis.
  • (5) Tomography of the petrous bones showed, in both cases, an upward tilt of the long axes of the bones including their auditory canals, generalized sclerosis of the petrous pyramids and enlargement of the ossicles.
  • (6) X-ray powder diagrams of normal ossicles were shown as a granular hydroxyapatite.
  • (7) There was a profound reduction in the ability of marrow to generate ossicles when transplanted under the kidney capsule as a result of the administration of either 224Ra or 239Pu, with only transient recoveries from the effects of 239Pu at 4 days and at 3 months after injection.
  • (8) The position, displacement and phase angle of the rotation axis of the ossicles was calculated based on the displacement and phase angle of the umbo, malleus head and lenticular process.
  • (9) Ossicular mobility was assessed by direct coupling of a piezoelectric ceramic vibrator to the ossicles during middle ear surgery.
  • (10) Increase in size of the auditory ossicles was stated to occur unevenly, every bone having certain periods of the most intensive growth.
  • (11) This restricted distribution of tenascin may be important in the morphogenesis of scleral papillae and scleral ossicles.
  • (12) Particular care should be taken with those who have both atlantoaxial instability and odontoid hypoplasia or accessory ossicles as they are at particular risk of spinal cord damage.
  • (13) The valve ossicle resembles that of Parechinus in its triangular valve shape and open blade form, contrasting with Echinus in these features.
  • (14) The ossicles were nearly always present but deformed.
  • (15) Two cases of ossicles in human menisci are added to the list of 18 previously reported cases.
  • (16) In the treatment of the various malformations of the external and middle ear (atresia of the bony canal, malformed ossicles, reduced volume of the middle ear in varying degrees, atypical course of the facial nerve), the indirect approach to the middle ear via the antrum appears to be the safest operative procedure for a tympanoplasty in cases of congenital atresia.
  • (17) The purpose of this study is to investigate the differences in the destruction of ossicles in chronic ear disease caused solely (monoinfection) by one of the most common three bacteria, namely Staphylococcus aureus, Pseudomonas aeruginosa or Proteus strain.
  • (18) We present four patients with meniscal ossicles associated with a longitudinal tear of the medial meniscus.
  • (19) They recorded an auditory gain in more than half the patients (early: PORP 97%, TORP 73%, piston 52%; plasty transplants of ossicles obtained from subjects who died accidentallyĕ For preserfic Council of the Ministry of Health, Czech Socialist Republic, recommended, based on the clinical tests, the manufacture of silastic prostheses of the middle ear.
  • (20) A hypothesis is developed to the effect that the movement of the ossicles, necessary for lubrification and nutrition of the hyaline cartilage, is maintained by the two middle-ear muscles.

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