What's the difference between crustacean and meropodite?

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.

Meropodite


Definition:

  • (n.) The fourth joint of a typical appendage of Crustacea.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The activity of the motor axons supplying the muscles of the meropodite can be also influenced by a variety of natural stimuli applied to other appendages.
  • (2) Recordings from the meropodite extensor muscle indicated that the tonic extensor motoneuron was primarily responsible for M-C joint extension.
  • (3) Animals used different methods of pressing the bar; the most common was extension of the claw, predominantly at the meropodite-carpopodite joint.
  • (4) The proximal accessory flexor (PAF) of the myochordotonal organ (MCO) in the meropodite of crayfish walking legs contains two populations of muscle fibers which are distinguishable by their diameters.
  • (5) The motor program and role of the meropodite sensory organs (the chordotonal organs MC-1, MC-2 and the myochordotonal organ MCO) in extension of the merocarpodite (M-C) joint of the claw was examined during an antennal-evoked defense response.
  • (6) Inactivation of individual meropodite sensory organs did not alter the tonic motoneuron response.

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