(a.) Of or pertaining to the Crustacea; crustaceous.
(n.) An animal belonging to the class Crustacea.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is assumed that taurine increases the Ca2+ sensitivity of the force-generating myofilaments in mammalian hearts and crustacean slow skeletal muscle fibres.
(2) The implications of these findings for the development and physiological performance of the crustacean motor unit are discussed.
(3) The four hosts (Mollusc -- Crustacean -- Odonat -- Amphibian) are obligatory in the life cycle for it is impossible to infect the Insects directly with the cecariae or the frog (tadpoles as well as adults) with the mesocercariae.
(4) Using a spectrophotometric method, the kinetics of the crustacean muscle enzyme was compared to the acetylcholinesterase (AChE) on mammalian red blood cells and in the lobster ventral nerve cord.
(5) In crustacean nerve 12-14% of the phospholipids was in the form of alkyl ether phospholipids, which in the lobster were approximately half choline-containing and half ethanolamine-containing.
(6) Clearance of foreign materials from the hemocoel of decapod crustaceans involves several distinct kinds of cells.
(7) Electron microscopy has revealed that chitin from a representative selection of insect orders (plus one crustacean and one arachnid) is localized in crystallites about 2.8 nm across.
(8) The crustacean Na+-H+ antiporter therefore bears similarities to the vertebrate antiporter but is uniquely electrogenic.
(9) The highest levels were found in hepatopancreas from crustaceans.
(10) From the vantage point of my 10-centimetre porthole, I glimpsed life forms with outlines like blown glass occasionally drifting past our lights, while small crustaceans hovered around like flies, keeping pace with our descent.
(11) The significance of the terminal residues of the red pigment-concentrating hormone (RPCH: Glu-Leu-Asn-Phe-Ser-Pro-Gly-Trp-NH2) for its blanching effect on crustacean chromatophores has been investigated.
(12) You’d be hard pushed to find half a dozen fresh oysters at this great price.” Frozen food giant Iceland sparked lobster wars last month with what it claimed was the cheapest cooked crustacean in Britain.
(13) Foods causing most prominent symptoms among patients in group A included legumes, tree nuts, crustaceans, and fish.
(14) In the walking legs of decapod crustaceans, intersegmental reflex actions originate from various joint proprioceptors.
(15) Ovaries from the spider crab, Libinia emarginata L. were studied to learn more of vitellogenesis in crustaceans.
(16) However, some responses were inhibitory, the first such demonstration in aquatic crustaceans.
(17) These include insects, chelicerates, most crustaceans, annelids, priapulids, nematodes, and some sipunculids.
(18) The pentapeptide proctolin modulates the activity of the rhythmic pattern generators in the crustacean stomatogastric nervous system.
(19) Tilapia is an aquaponics staple, but crustaceans are also up for discussion.
(20) Ross said researchers have identified four new species of fish, a new type of starfish and several new species of crustaceans living in the deepwater reefs.
Ibis
Definition:
(n.) Any bird of the genus Ibis and several allied genera, of the family Ibidae, inhabiting both the Old World and the New. Numerous species are known. They are large, wading birds, having a long, curved beak, and feed largely on reptiles.
Example Sentences:
(1) Twenty-one of 24 adult male and female cattle egrets (Bubulcus ibis ibis) collected in Geneva County, Alabama had numerous white cyst-like structures (1,466 microns X 354 microns) found within the loose connective tissues of the skeletal muscles of the inguinal region, beneath the serosa of the proventriculus and in the heart beneath the epicardium (one adult male bird).
(2) IBI duration decreased with increasing CA, although this trend was not very prominent when very restrictive criteria for measurement of IBI length were used.
(3) The occurrence of epilepsy was 14% in IBI, 15% in ICH, and 35% in SAH.
(4) In aspirin-treated platelets from human plasma, a distinct phase of aggregation induced by epinephrine can be blocked by IBI with KB of 2 x 10(-5) M. This indicates a small but selective alpha 2 related action of IBI.
(5) This indicates a lack of specificity of IBI in differentiating various phases of aggregation.
(6) As soon as it located prey, the ibis's bill snapped shut.
(7) Premier Inn has 72 hotels in Greater London, Travelodge has 67, Holiday Inn 38 and Ibis 24; and all brands continue to expand: a fifth Hub by Premier Inn is set to open on Goodge Street, Fitzrovia, for example; Ibis Styles is opening in west London; while Z hotels is adding Covent Garden and Soho to its collection of listed townhouses in 2018.
(8) A simplified model consisting of random voltage fluctuations superimposed upon a linear pacemaker depolarization of slope a is used to analyze the N-dependent shape of the IBI histogram.
(9) Although the sector has improved on that front with Ibis Styles and Z Hotels making a genuine effort with decor.
(10) Bird life is abundant and includes oystercatchers, ibis, egrets and cormorants.
(11) Heart rate (interbeat interval, or IBI) and mean arterial pressure were tracked for 90 subsequent beats.
(12) We found that in the SE-BS group the coefficient of variability of IBI duration was highly correlated with the logarithm of mean IBI duration while in the HIE-BS group, there was no significant correlation between these 2 variables.
(13) In contrast to human platelets, both ABI and IBI produced contractions of rat aorta; however, only the responses to ABI were blocked in a competitive manner by the alpha-antagonists, phentolamine, prazosin, and SKF 104078.
(14) Great Egrets, Striated and Boat-billed Herons and Scarlet Ibis older than 30 days of age developed viremias of lower levels and shorter durtions than did young birds.
(15) From 1989-1991, the concentrations of heavy metals and selenium were studied in the feathers of fledgling cattle egrets Bubulcus ibis, a terrestrially-feeding insectivore, from New York and Delaware in the northeastern United States, from Puerto Rico, and from Egypt.
(16) infusion of hypertonic NaCl solution increased BP and shortened IBI.
(17) Thus, the longer duration of action of IBI may be attributed to the S=C=N group substitution of the molecule.
(18) Three weeks and 17 more group interaction hours later, they also described each same-group participant, including self, on Lorr and McNair's (1963) Interpersonal Behavior Inventory (IBI).
(19) Therefore, as compared to tolazoline, IBI presents an interesting paradox in its interaction with various receptors or mechanisms in the vascular tissue and platelets.
(20) However, for laboratories where sequence analysis is not a major effort and the expense of a full sequence analysis workstation cannot be justified, MicroGenie and IBI-Pustell offer a satisfactory alternative.