What's the difference between earthworm and lumbric?
Earthworm
Definition:
(n.) Any worm of the genus Lumbricus and allied genera, found in damp soil. One of the largest and most abundant species in Europe and America is L. terrestris; many others are known; -- called also angleworm and dewworm.
(n.) A mean, sordid person; a niggard.
Example Sentences:
(1) It also strongly inhibited non-plasmic fibrinolysis with human leukocyte proteinase and earthworm proteinase.
(2) Monitoring of DDT and HCH residues in abiotic and biotic components of the environment of Delhi during 1988 to 1989 revealed low to moderate levels of these insecticides in soil, earthworms, birds, buffalo milk, water, freshwater clams, fish, human fat, human blood and breast milk samples.
(3) It was concluded that it is possible to substitute 30% of the protein in the diet of growing rabbits, with earthworm meal, without any adverse physiological effects.
(4) The complete nucleotide sequence of the gene for chain c of hemoglobin of the earthworm Lumbricus terrestris has been determined.
(5) For copper and dichloroaniline earthworms did recover cocoon production to a level as high as the control level or even higher; in case of pentachlorophenol, cocoon production was still reduced after 3 weeks in clean soil.
(6) The present results indicate that the toxicity and bioaccumulation and therefore the bioavailability of chlorophenols in soil to earthworms are dependent on the concentration in soil solution and can be predicted on the basis of adsorption data.
(7) In the cerebral ( = supraesophageal, suprapharyngeal) ganglion of the earthworm, a number of neurosecretory Gomori-positive perikarya are bipolar; others are unipolar, or multipolar.
(8) Such an activity is not inhibited by zymosan, inulin or lipopolysaccharide (LPS), nor by hydrazine or methylamine, suggesting that earthworm hemolysins are not related to C3 or C3b complement components.
(9) Proteinase-inhibiting components of the coelomic fluid of the earthworm Lumbricus terrestris were examined.
(10) Nerve fibres and cell bodies displaying vasoactive intestinal polypeptide (VIP) or pancreatic polypeptide (PP) immunoreactivity were demonstrated in ganglia of the earthworm (Lumbricus terrestris).
(11) The dorsal openings in the myelin sheath of the median giant fiber (MGF) of the earthworm (Lumbricus terrestris L.) have been studied with electronmicroscopical and electrophysiological methods.
(12) These results suggest that earthworm powder represents a possible oral thrombolytic agent.
(13) Chloragocytes and intestinal tissue showed significantly higher lead levels in contaminated earthworms than in control material.
(14) High concentration of lead in the soil does not favour increased accumulation of lead in the earthworms' organisms.
(15) The snakes were fed diets consisting of earthworms, Lumbricus terrestris, and mosquitofish, Gambusia affinis.
(16) Traditional formulations of the roles of supra- and subpharyngeal ganglia in the earthworm's behavior were reinvestigated with the use of saline rather than light as the aversive stimulus.
(17) This information on lymphocytic, granulocytic and inclusion-containing coelomocytes is crucial to understanding more about cellular immunity in the earthworm.
(18) Toxicity values were obtained for pentachlorophenol (PCP) and other compounds in the standard OECD and EEC earthworm test.
(19) A gavage technique has been developed that permits the administration of water-soluble and lipid-soluble test chemicals in spite of the extremely low level of triglyceride lipase activity in the earthworm gut.
(20) Conjugation with glutathione catalysed by glutathione S-transferases may consequently be an important detoxification mechanism in earthworms.
Lumbric
Definition:
(n.) An earthworm, or a worm resembling an earthworm.
Example Sentences:
(1) After immobilization the sensitivity of the lumbrical decreased, whereas that of the diaphragm did not change.
(2) At operation was found a fibrous adherence of the third lumbrical at the sheath of the flexor digitorum profundus.
(3) Motoneurone death at the spinal cord level supplying the lumbricals was assessed by counting axons in the 4th lumbar ventral root.
(4) A case of carpal tunnel syndrome is presented in which an abnormally high origin of a lumbrical muscle seemed to be the cause.
(5) Three cases of manual workers suffering from carpal tunnel syndrome caused by a hypertrophied lumbrical muscle are presented.
(6) Single twitch fibres from lumbrical muscles of Xenopus have been loaded with the photolysable calcium-chelator diazo-2 by incubation in Ringer solution containing the membrane permeable acetoxymethyl ester (AM) form of diazo-2.
(7) By contraction a lumbrical muscle adds a small but significant flexor force at the metacarpophalangeal joint, and thereby it is also capable of contributing to radial deviation and possibly rotation.
(8) The severity of the symptoms was graded and the patients were studied with seven established EMG procedures, motor inching to the abductor pollicis brevis and second lumbrical muscles, and sensory inching.
(9) Motor inching to the second lumbrical muscle alone detected the lesion site in several severely involved nerves.
(10) This paper reports the results of a serial-section electron microscopic study of the IVth lumbrical muscle of the rat hindlimb, studied on embryonic day 20 (E20), a time when all secondary myotubes are less than 24 h old, and new ones are rapidly forming.
(11) The process of neuromuscular synapse elimination has been studied in the fourth deep lumbrical (4DL) muscle of the rat, a preparation which offers technical advantages for some types of experimental work.
(12) The indication and technique of these operations in case of paralysis of the opponens, interosseal-lumbrical muscles and of the extensors of the hand are described in details.
(13) The generation and development of muscle cells in the IVth hindlimb lumbrical muscle of the rat was studied following total or partial denervation.
(14) Intracellular Cl- activity (aiCl) was measured with Cl(-)-sensitive microelectrodes in normal and denervated rat lumbrical muscle.
(15) Single muscle fibres were dissected from Xenopus lumbrical muscles and microinjected with the photoprotein aequorin in order to measure the myoplasmic free calcium concentration ([Ca2+]i).
(16) In the literature there are few precise descriptions of the mechanism of irritation of the nerve, either by the bursae between the metatarsal heads, by the deep intermetatarsal ligament, or by the tendons of the lumbrical muscles which are close to the nerve.
(17) After constructing length-tension curves of the profundus muscle in four fresh cadavers prior to the onset of rigor mortis, the interaction of realistic lumbrical loads with profundus elastic tension was studied.
(18) The device can be inserted with the aid of tendon-tunneling forceps and sutured to the profundus tendon at the origin of the lumbrical muscle.
(19) The three-dimensional structure of the transverse-axial tubular system, sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR) and mitochondria in the extracapsular region of the intrafusal muscle fibers of the rat lumbrical muscle was observed by ultra-high-resolution scanning electron microscopy after removal of the cytoplasmic matrix by the osmium-DMSO-osmium procedure.
(20) This technique is useful in case of ulnar palsy in children, where palmaris longus many-tailed graft is desired as lumbrical replacement and where Brand's anastomosis is considered too difficult.