(n. sing. & pl.) One of a race of giants, sons of Neptune and Amphitrite, having but one eye, and that in the middle of the forehead. They were fabled to inhabit Sicily, and to assist in the workshops of Vulcan, under Mt. Etna.
(n. sing. & pl.) A genus of minute Entomostraca, found both in fresh and salt water. See Copepoda.
(n. sing. & pl.) A portable forge, used by tinkers, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) Each target compound was obtained in five steps starting from cyclopent-2-enone.
(2) It is suggested that the cyclops face constitutes a model for the study of the development of the normal face.
(3) The timing and mode of application of compounds toxic to cyclops in various endemic regions are discussed.
(4) The effect of Abate on the vector cyclops was studied and was found to be very encouraging.
(5) In these studies the specimens of cyclopes of man and mammals, still present in the collection of the Museum Vrolik in the Department of Anatomy and Embryology of the University of Amsterdam, were described and illustrated with beautiful lithographs.
(6) In the micro-economics of obscure music promotion the vandalism of a cloth cyclops dispenser could be the point at which your break-even point disappears over the event horizon.
(7) They describe the various types of Cyclops habitat and the seasonal variations in transmission.
(8) In this study, various insecticidal and molluscicidal compounds were tested in the laboratory for their toxicity to the intermediate hosts, namely, various species of cyclops, which often live in sources of potable water, such as step-wells, cisterns and ponds.
(9) "In terms of the math, [Storm, Jean Grey and Cyclops] would be in their early teens."
(10) The upper jaw has also been studied in a dried cyclops skull and in a desiccated cyclops head in which the roof of the orbit had been removed.
(11) Sieving water through a cloth is sufficient to remove the Cyclops, but on a public health scale improved water supplies are required for control.
(12) Such a case is presented along with a case of a cyclops with synophthalmos.
(13) Scanning electron microscopic observations were made on the early third stage (eL3) larvae of Gnathostoma spinigerum (Sakolnakhon, northeast Thailand) from 3-week-old infected cyclops (Mesocyclops leuckarti).
(14) Experiments demonstrated that Macaca mulatta was successfully infected with the early 3rd-stage larvae from cyclops or the advanced 3rd-stage larvae from fish.
(15) Four strains of L. tarentolae, the four other supposed saurian Leishmania species, three mammalian leishmanias, T. platydactyli and four other trypanosomes, T. cyclops (Malaysian macaque), T. conorrhini (Hawaiian reduviid bug), T. cruzi (man) and T. lewisi (feral rat) were analyzed for their contents of sterols and phosphoglyceride fatty acyl groups.
(16) At all concentrations tested, adult cyclops exhibited normal mating.
(17) This apparent diverse origin of cyclopia can be clarified if future cyclopic specimens are carefully investigated.
(18) Two cases of cyclopic malformations are described among 450 infants of diabetic mothers during a period of four years.
(19) Cheapness, low toxicity to mammals and ease of application, in conjunction with effectiveness against cyclops, are primary requisites for any compound accepted for widespread use.
(20) The pluviometry in each zone determines a specific cyclic evolution of the cyclops (the vectors of the disease) in the ponds which are the most important places of the transmission.
Polyphemus
Definition:
(n.) A very large American moth (Telea polyphemus) belonging to the Silkworm family (Bombycidae). Its larva, which is very large, bright green, with silvery tubercles, and with oblique white stripes on the sides, feeds on the oak, chestnut, willow, cherry, apple, and other trees. It produces a large amount of strong silk. Called also American silkworm.
Example Sentences:
(1) A clottable protein, named coagulogen, was highly purified from the amoebocyte lysate of Japanese horseshoe crab (Tachypleus tridentatus) by a method similar to that used for the lysate of Limulus polyphemus amoebocytes.
(2) Homospecific and heterospecific dot hybridizations were performed between previously characterized A. polyphemus complementary DNA clones and total or stage-specific follicular mRNAs from the two species.
(3) Light responses (ReP) and pre-stimulus membrane potential (PMP) and conductance of photoreceptors of Astacus leptodactylus and Limulus polyphemus (lateral eye) were recorded and changes were observed when the photoreceptor was depolarized by the action of external ouabain of high potassium concentration application.
(4) Paraffin sections were stained both chemically and with the following horseradish-peroxidase conjugated lectins: Canavalia ensiformis (Con-A), Limulus polyphemus (LPA), Lotus tetragonolobus (LTA), Arachis hypogaea (PNA), Ricinus communis (RCA1), Glycine max (SBA) and Triticum vulgaris (WGA).
(5) Clots were allowed to form in samples of whole blood taken from the American horseshoe crab, Limulus polyphemus, in the absence and presence of dansylcadaverine (16), and were analyzed for their contents of N epsilon(gamma-glutamyl)lysine and gamma-glutamyl-dansylcadaverine.
(6) Moreover, FITC-Limulus polyphemus, a specific lectin for neuraminic acid, showed no fluorescence on OHCs.
(7) The lectin from Limulus polyphemus (limulin) has an affinity for glycoproteins containing N-glycolyl or N-acetylneuraminic residues.
(8) The molecular weights (mw) of the trypsin-protecting proteins in L. emarginata and C. borealis, estimated from gelfiltration studies, are, respectively, 480 X 10(3) and 460 X 10(3), and are significantly smaller than that of L. polyphemus (Mr = 570 X 10(3)).
(9) Haemundecapeptide hydrazide, horseradish peroxidase hydrazide, and Limulus polyphemus haemocyanin hydrazide were obtained by coupling adipic acid dihydrazide to the tracers with the aid of water-soluble carbodiimide.
(10) Immunization of mice with a combination of passively administered syngeneic IgG (anti-p-azophenylarsonate [anti-Ars]) antibody and a soluble, multivalent form of the antibody's corresponding antigen (Limulus polyphemus hemocyanin conjugated with Ars [Lph-Ars]) resulted in specific autoanti-IgG Fc (rheumatoid factor) production.
(11) Ventral photoreceptors of the horseshoe crab, Limulus polyphemus, have been important in the study of visual transduction, due to their large size and hardiness in vitro.
(12) A circadian clock modulates the structure and function of the lateral eyes of Limulus polyphemus, greatly increasing their sensitivity at night.
(13) Trypsin inhibitory activity from the hemolymph of Limulus polyphemus was found to co-purify with coagulogen (the clottable protein in blood coagulation) after acidification, ammonium sulfate precipitation, and gel filtration.
(14) D-Lactate dehydrogenase (EC 1.1.1.28) from Limulus polyphemus is a homodimer which is composed of identical subunits of Mr = 35 000.
(15) Adaptation was studied in single olfactory receptor cells of male moths of Bombyx mori and Antheraea polyphemus.
(16) The biogenic amine octopamine (OCT) appears to be involved in cell volume regulation in the horseshoe crab, Limulus polyphemus, during hypoosmotic stress.
(17) Specific reactions with the biotinylated lectins concanavalin agglutinin (Con A), Solanum tuberosum agglutinin (STA) and Limulus polyphemus agglutinin (LPA) indicate that the carbohydrate moieties contain N-acetylneuraminic acid, N-acetylglucosamine and mannosyl- or glucosyl-residues.
(18) LAL is produced from cells of the haemolymph (amoebocytes) of the horseshoe crab (Limulus polyphemus), which respond with an extremely sensitive clotting system upon contact with endotoxins.
(19) The defects resembled those induced in previous studies by treatment with sialic acid binding lectins such as wheat germ agglutinin and limulus polyphemus lectin (Griffith and Wiley, '90b).
(20) Ten juvenile Limulus polyphemus, tested individually for 3-day periods in electronic shuttleboxes, exhibited a nocturnal activity pattern; activity was four times as great at Night as during the Day.