What's the difference between flatfish and sole?

Flatfish


Definition:

  • (n.) Any fish of the family Pleuronectidae; esp., the winter flounder (Pleuronectes Americanus). The flatfishes have the body flattened, swim on the side, and have eyes on one side, as the flounder, turbot, and halibut. See Flounder.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) These unique connections provide the necessary and sufficient connectivity to adapt the flatfish's eye movement system to the animals' postmetamorphic existence.
  • (2) The geographic distribution pattern points to the existence of areas around the globe in which flatfish or eels are able to develop skin papillomas.
  • (3) Intracellular staining of central neurons with horseradish peroxidase revealed that in postmetamorphic flatfish second-order horizontal canal neurons contact vertical eye muscle motoneuron pools on both sides of the brain via pathways that are absent in all other vertebrates studied.
  • (4) The 1-butanol adduct enhancement version of the 32P-postlabeling assay was used to measure the levels of hepatic DNA adducts in the marine flatfish, English sole (Parophrys vetulus), sampled from the Duwamish Waterway and Eagle Harbor, Puget Sound, WA, where they are exposed to high concentrations of sediment-associated chemical contaminants and exhibit an elevated prevalence of hepatic neoplasms.
  • (5) Flatfish, mainly in the form of plaice, and crustacea were found to be the main source of organic arsenic compounds.
  • (6) The opposite is found for lymphocystis, which is common among flatfish species of the Atlantic shores of Europe and North America.
  • (7) Amphistium Amphistium is a 50m-year-old relative of the flatfish.
  • (8) During their metamorphosis, the animals undergo a 90 degrees tilt to one side or the other to become the bottom-adapted adult flatfish.
  • (9) We studied the allergenic significance of the fish species considered most representative because of their greater consumption in our environment (flatfishes: Pleuronectiformes such as sole, whiff, and witch; Gadiformes such as hake; and Scombriformes such as albacore) or because of the results of previous studies of Gadiformes such as cod.
  • (10) Outside these areas of "potential skin papilloma risk," flatfish and eel populations are not afflicted with papillomas even if they inhabit estuaries or rivers with a high man-made or naturally-occurring pollution.
  • (11) Fish lymphocystis disease viruses (FLDV) were isolated directly from lymphocystis disease lesions of various flatfish species and further purified.
  • (12) The results of both laboratory and field studies show that sediment-associated PAHs are biologically available to both flatfish species, and that both species accumulate similar levels of PAHs.
  • (13) The peripheral and central oculomotor organization of the adult flatfish presents no morphological substrates that suffice to explain adaptive changes in its vestibuloocular reflex system.
  • (14) These species and the flatfishes Platichthys flesus (Linnaeus) and Limanda limanda (Linnaeus) were laboratory infected.
  • (15) Pardaxin, an active principle of the repellent secretion of the Red Sea flatfish, Pardachirus marmoratus, elicited severe struggling, mouth paralysis, and transient increase in urea leakage from the gills only when administered to the medium bathing the shark's pharyngeal cavity and gills.
  • (16) In a marine flatfish halibut, (Hippoglossus hippoglossus), we have found a more specialized hatching process.
  • (17) While modern flatfish, like flounder, plaice and sole, have both eyes on one side of the head, the shift in eye position is incomplete in Amphistium.
  • (18) Mechanical or electrical stunning is compulsory except for eel and flatfish.
  • (19) The effects of the two toxic proteins Pardaxin I and II isolated from the gland secretion of the flatfish Pardachirus marmoratus on frog neuromuscular transmission have been investigated and compared to those of the gland secretion.
  • (20) A comprehensive description of the histopathologic characteristics of a spectrum of idiopathic lesions in feral English sole (Parophrys vetulus), a bottom-dwelling flatfish, from Puget Sound, Washington State, is presented.

Sole


Definition:

  • (n.) Any one of several species of flatfishes of the genus Solea and allied genera of the family Soleidae, especially the common European species (Solea vulgaris), which is a valuable food fish.
  • (n.) Any one of several American flounders somewhat resembling the true sole in form or quality, as the California sole (Lepidopsetta bilineata), the long-finned sole (Glyptocephalus zachirus), and other species.
  • (n.) The bottom of the foot; hence, also, rarely, the foot itself.
  • (n.) The bottom of a shoe or boot, or the piece of leather which constitutes the bottom.
  • (n.) The bottom or lower part of anything, or that on which anything rests in standing.
  • (n.) The bottom of the body of a plow; -- called also slade; also, the bottom of a furrow.
  • (n.) The horny substance under a horse's foot, which protects the more tender parts.
  • (n.) The bottom of an embrasure.
  • (n.) A piece of timber attached to the lower part of the rudder, to make it even with the false keel.
  • (n.) The seat or bottom of a mine; -- applied to horizontal veins or lodes.
  • (v. t.) To furnish with a sole; as, to sole a shoe.
  • (a.) Being or acting without another; single; individual; only.
  • (a.) Single; unmarried; as, a feme sole.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Although solely nociresponsive neurons are clearly likely to fill a role in the processing and signalling of pain in the conscious central nervous system, the way in which such useful specificity could be conveyed by multireceptive neurons is difficult to appreciate.
  • (2) In 2012, 20% of small and medium-sized businesses were either run solely or mostly by women.
  • (3) Mieko Nagaoka took just under an hour and 16 minutes to finish the race as the sole competitor in the 100 to 104-year-old category at a short course pool in Ehime, western Japan , on Saturday.
  • (4) Solely infectious waste become removed hospital-intern and -extern on conditions of hygienic prevention, namely through secure packing during the transport, combustion or desinfection.
  • (5) This suggested that carcinogen-induced error incorporation during DNA synthesis was restricted solely to the treatment of a deoxynucleotide template.
  • (6) Tests in which the size of the landmark was altered from that used in training suggest that distance is not learned solely in terms of the apparent size of the landmark as seen from the goal.
  • (7) Today the physician who treats women with emotional problems during menopause cannot function solely as a psychotherapist; he must deal with both their soma and psyche.
  • (8) Several oilseed and legume protein products were fed to rats as the sole source of dietary protein, and in blends with cereals for the determination of protein efficiency ratio (PER) and biological availability of amino acids.
  • (9) In contrast, newly formed secondary myotubes are short cells which insert solely into the primary myotubes by a series of complex interdigitating folds along which adhering junctions occur.
  • (10) "It's a very open question as to whether this will come," said a diplomat in Brussels, adding that Cameron could find himself in the lonely position of being the sole national leader urging a renegotiation.
  • (11) Considering those portions of the molecule that can be deleted without a loss of catalytic activity, one is left with a catalytic center of approximately 130 nucleotides that is solely responsible for the molecule's activity.
  • (12) A brevibacterium, strain TH-4, previously isolated by aerobic enrichment on the monocyclic monoterpenoid cis-terpin hydrate as a sole carbon and energy source, was found to grow on alpha-terpineol and on a number of common sugars and organic acids.
  • (13) The results showed that patients with and without GOR disease cannot be separated solely on the basis of the standard manometric test, even adopting more parameters besides the traditional DOS pressure measurement.
  • (14) The favorable prognosis is due solely to the fact that women with an IUD have far less negative antecedents and that the EP probably occurred due to impaired ciliary action, reversible when the IUD is removed.
  • (15) Phosphate appears to be incorporated solely into serine residues.
  • (16) In the medium to long term, sole primary treatment by tamoxifen delays more definitive therapy.
  • (17) In the patients with aplastic anaemia the iron flux was diminished, but never eliminated, demonstrating that the exchangeable compartment was not solely erythroblastic, but included non-erythroid transferrin receptors.
  • (18) Suction mammaplasty can be used as a sole technique in congenital asymmetry or in post-reduction enlargement or asymmetry.
  • (19) The presence of grouped microcalcifications as the sole indicator of malignancy was seen in 100% (seven of seven) of the patients in the 30-39-year age group, 64% (18 of 28) in the 40-49-year age group, 37% (11 of 30) in the 50-59-year age group, 30% (seven of 23) in the 60-69-year age group, and 23% (six of 26) in the 70-85-year age group.
  • (20) If you and your mother are joint tenants, when she dies you will become the sole owner of the whole property even if her will says that she is leaving her share to someone else.