What's the difference between crustacean and squame?
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.
Squame
Definition:
(n.) A scale.
(n.) The scale, or exopodite, of an antenna of a crustacean.
Example Sentences:
(1) The relative contribution from loose scurf or from stratum corneum squames was not determined.
(2) Three farmers had specific IgE to pig squames or urine and eight to feed components but none to the microbial extracts.
(3) Localization of the CEA to the cell membrane of mature cervical squames suggests a key role for these antigens in maintaining the integrity of the squamous mucosa, through the putative function of an adhesion molecule.
(4) Depending on the culture system, the extent of terminal differentiation and squame accumulation varies.
(5) The Feulgen-DNA contents of human leukocytes, sperm, and oral squames were investigated by scanning and integrating microdensitometry, both with and without correction for residual distribution error and glare.
(6) Gonococci were found to become firmly attached to stratified squamous epithelium, a process that appeared to be initiated by activity of the cytoplasmic membrane of superficial squames.
(7) A new type of squame arrangements is described in guinea-pig ear epidermis.
(8) Less consistent components are aplasia of mammillary bodies, fusion of thalami, anomalies of cerebral gyral patterns, bifid atlas or bifid occipital squame, elevation of torcular, and cervical hydromyelia.
(9) The significance of anucleated squames in Papanicolaou-stained cervicovaginal smears as a marker of hyperkeratosis with an underlying significant atypia was evaluated.
(10) Photomicrographs show fetal squames and lanugo hairs in the pulmonary capillaries as well as ones aspirated from the right atrium.
(11) We have performed studied of reaggregation from single squames prepared by these methods.
(12) Thus, reporting the presence of anucleated squames in the absence of any other abnormality appears to be of marginal value as a screening procedure for predicting the existence of a significant lesion.
(13) We have employed the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) to detect Human Papillomavirus (HPV) type 16 in oral squames and mononuclear cells from 62 healthy young adult volunteers.
(14) Lipid-covered stratum corneum squames were identified in crop, midgut, rectum and faeces.
(15) At necropsy squames could be still be identified in an infarcted area of lung and the clinical diagnosis proved.
(16) C. albicans, usually the yeast form, was present on the exposed surface and between hyperplastic keratin squames.
(17) Digestion of intracellular keratin is obvious, but the resistant cell wall of the squames remain unaltered.
(18) This pattern develops in epidermis that is thicker than about 42 micron; in thinner epidermis the outer cells and squames form the usual columnar stacks.
(19) Supplementary biotin affected the structure of the coronary epidermis; there was an increase in the density of the horn tubules in the stratum medium, the horny squames in the stratum medium were more tightly packed and the tubules were more clearly defined in the pigs receiving biotin.
(20) Using a panel of polyclonal and monoclonal antibodies to CEA-related antigens in paraffin-processed cervical biopsies, CEA and NCA expression has been demonstrated on the cell membrane of normal mature cervical squames.