What's the difference between crustacean and marsupium?

Crustacean


Definition:

  • (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.

Marsupium


Definition:

  • (n.) The pouch, formed by a fold of the skin of the abdomen, in which marsupials carry their young; also, a pouch for similar use in other animals, as certain Crustacea.
  • (n.) The pecten in the eye of birds and reptiles. See Pecten.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The abdominal incision was then sutured to close the opening of the marsupium.
  • (2) This high level of hypotony persists up to the formation of the head-shild, after which the depression of marsupium fluid becomes equal to that of the external medium.
  • (3) In this study, we used closed marsupialization in which early operation was preferable and after decompression of the pancreas and necrosectomy, both edges of the opened greater omentum were sutured respectively to the upper and lower peritoneal borders of the transverse abdominal incision, forming a marsupium separating the greater and lesser abdominal cavities from each other.
  • (4) It appears that support of the marsupium is not the primary function or, at least, not the most proximate determinate of epipubic form in taxa with marsupia.
  • (5) However, the allometric relationships of the epipubic bones of taxa that possess marsupia do not conform to the hypothesis that epipubic bones support the marsupium nearly as well as those without a marsupium.
  • (6) (-)Epicatechin, an active principle in the water extract of the bark of Pterocarpus marsupium increases the cAMP content of the islets which is associated with the increased insulin release, conversion of proinsulin to insulin and cathepsin B activity.
  • (7) Unlike in other mammals, much of this development takes place postnatally when the neonate is in the mother's marsupium.
  • (8) From the roots of Pterocarpus marsupium 7-Hydroxy-6, 8-dimethyl flavanone-7-O-alpha-L-arabinopyranoside and 7,8,4'-trihydroxy-3', 5'-dimethoxy flavanone-4'-O-beta-D-glucopyranoside have been isolated and their structure elucidated.
  • (9) The marsupium was easily reentered and necrotic tissue removed.
  • (10) Water extract of the bark of plant of Pterocarpus marsupium Roxb is used as an antidiabetic drug in indigenous medicine in India.

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